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| [[File:Recursion ploy - Doctor Who Castrovalva - BBC|thumb|Recursion explained in [[Castrovalva]]]] | | #Redirect [[Recursion]] |
| '''Recursion''' was the concept that ideas and concepts, as [[Nyssa]] put it, "fold back on themselves". Trying to come to grips with the concept, [[Tegan]] surmised that "if we had an [[index file]] we could look it up in the index file under 'index file'".
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| Later, the [[Fifth Doctor]] called this exchange with [[Mergrave]] a "perfect example of recursion":
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| ::Doctor: How do I know you're telling the truth?
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| ::Mergrave: Because, sir, I maintain that I am. And I am a man of my word.
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| The Doctor later realised that [[Castrovalva]] itself was — as a mathematical construct of {{ainley}} — inherently recursive. The Master intended to trap the Doctor there as the recursion folded in on itself and the reality collapsed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'')
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