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Bug 1726 - [FS] induction or recursion?
Summary: [FS] induction or recursion?
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: XPath / XQuery / XSLT
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Formal Semantics 1.0 (show other bugs)
Version: Last Call drafts
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P2 trivial
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jerome Simeon
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Reported: 2005-07-18 21:43 UTC by Fred Zemke
Modified: 2005-09-29 10:48 UTC (History)
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Description Fred Zemke 2005-07-18 21:43:22 UTC 
7.2.10 fn:min, etc.
It says that convert_untypedAtomic is defined "by induction".
Usually such definitions are said to be "by recursion", whereas
induction is a method of proof, for example, to prove that a 
recursive definition is well-defined.  The distinction 
doesn't really matter much, but I think that is the usual
understanding.
Comment 1 Jerome Simeon 2005-09-29 10:45:08 UTC 
Fixed as suggested.
- Jerome