Timeline for What is a term for a function that when called repeatedly, has the same effect as calling once?
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| Mar 6, 2019 at 15:17 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | Quines are to software as Cantor sets are to math :-) . And of course quines are not idempotent -- they either fail when the output already exists or they "clobber" the previous result and write a new, albeit identical output. | |
| Mar 4, 2019 at 22:20 | history | answered | Davislor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |