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by orlp 1182 days ago
I like the name Algorithmic Induction, or Inductive Programming.

Just like how in an (strongly) inductive proof you use facts from Fact(0)..Fact(n) to prove Fact(n+1), with inductive programming you're using results from Result(0)..Result(n) to compute Result(n+1).