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iteration
| If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it. |
| —W. C. Fields |
A feedback process that repeats n number of times. Iteration refers to the act of performing the calculation of a certain function and then picking the result, or output, as the starting value, or input, for the next calculation of the same function. The operation repeats on and on – even infinitely, despite Fields's comment!
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