Recurring
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Recurring can refer to several different things:
In music:
- Recurring is a 1991 album by the British psychedelic-rock group, Spacemen 3.
In math:
- A recurring decimal (or "repeating decimal") is an expression representing a real number in the decimal numeral system, in which after some point the same sequence of digits repeats infinitely.
In dreams:
- A recurring dream is a dream that someone repeatedly claims to have over an extended period of time.
In television:
- A recurring character is one, usually on a prime-time series, that appears from time to time and may grow into a larger role.
- In the soap opera world, recurring status occurs when an already-established performer is dropped from their contract, but still has the option to be showcased on the soap.
In economics:
- Recurring expense is an ongoing (continual) expenditure.
- The curiously recurring template pattern (CRTP) is a software design pattern where a base class template is instantiated with a derived class type as its template parameter.
In computer programming: Recurrence is when a subroutine/method/function calls itself from within its body to solve a given computational problem. the most commonly-used example is that of calculating the factorial of a number using recurrence.