[Bug 1726] New: [FS] induction or recursion?

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           Summary: [FS] induction or recursion?
           Product: XPath / XQuery / XSLT
           Version: Last Call drafts
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows 2000
            Status: NEW
          Severity: trivial
          Priority: P2
         Component: Formal Semantics
        AssignedTo: simeon@us.ibm.com
        ReportedBy: fred.zemke@oracle.com
         QAContact: public-qt-comments@w3.org


7.2.10 fn:min, etc.
It says that convert_untypedAtomic is defined "by induction".
Usually such definitions are said to be "by recursion", whereas
induction is a method of proof, for example, to prove that a 
recursive definition is well-defined.  The distinction 
doesn't really matter much, but I think that is the usual
understanding.

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