Arthur wrote: >Guess I am fishing for some exposition on the statement that the > >"The study of fixed points has been at the foundation of algorithms" > > Very deep in the foundations of algorithms are the foundations of computer science semantics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denotational_semantics
An other area where I've been exposed ot fixed points is concurrent constraint programming where constraint propagators are applied to a computation space until a fixed point is reached (see for instance http://www.gecode.org/ for a Open source implementation). HTH, -- Grégoire Dooms PS: Where is the connection with education with/about Python ? _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
