On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
> On 5/8/2011 10:07 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > Because the test of "is this nothing, or something?" is a common, useful >> test: >> > > Because inductive algorithms commonly branch on 'input is something' (not > done, change args toward 'nothing'and recurse or iterate) versus 'input is > nothing (done, return base expression). > Just what is an inductive algorithm? I'm familiar with inductive reasoning and inductive proofs, but there doesn't seem to be much on the 'net defining inductive algorithms. There are some papers that reference the topic, but few seem to spend much time on defining it. They seem to have to do with A.I. knowledge acquisition - perhaps it's an algorithm that reasons from a bunch of factlets to create a general rule?
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