Editing Recursive acronym (section)

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* RPM, PHP, XBMC and YAML were originally conventional acronyms which were later redefined recursively. They are examples of, or may be referred to as, backronymization,{{Citation needed|date=September 2010|reason=There's little evidence that this word exists outside of Wikipedia.}} where the official meaning of an acronym is changed.
* Most recursive acronyms are recursive on the first letter, which is therefore an arbitrary choice, often selected for reasons of humour, ease of pronunciation, or consistency with an earlier acronym that used the same letters for different words, such as PHP, which now stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor", but was originally "Personal Home Page". However [[Yopy|YOPY]], "Your own personal YOPY" is recursive on the last letter.
* A joke implying that the middle initial "B." in the name of [[Benoit B. Mandelbrot]] stands for "Benoit B. Mandelbrot" plays on the idea that [[fractals]], which Mandelbrot studied, repeat themselves at smaller and smaller scales when examined closely.
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