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BHSPitMonkey on Feb 10, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: I am a great programmer, but horrible algorithmist

That's not a very good algorithm when the initial value of y is negative.

spacemanaki on Feb 10, 2012 [–]

IIRC the Little Schemer restricts things to the natural numbers, to keep it simple.

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