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Re: To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion (was Re: apple iie overheat question)



Scott Hemphill wrote:

> > (Excuse me for butting in... it's an irresistible subject for
> > a scheme fan ;)
>
> I don't mind at all.  The topic was already straying from the Apple ][.
> GNU cc doesn't do this optimization.  I'll leave the topic of whether it
> should to others.

Might as well... at least the growth is linear, so it shouldn't suck
as bad :).

> I was hoping that somebody would bite on my direct calculation for the
> Fibonacci sequence, wondering where my "magic constants" came from, and
> why it works.  I guess most people either already know, or don't care.

Or scared of the scantiest smell of hard math? 8)

ObOT: is there any minor revision among ROM3?  I have two ROM3 IIgs'es
which put up different control panels.
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