Recurring

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Recurring can refer to several different things:

In music:

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:

In software engineering:

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.