What is "tak"

Tak is a town ( thesaban mueang) in north-west Thailand, capital of the Tak Province and the Tak district. As of 2005 the town had a population of 19,900 and an area of 7.27 km². It covers the tambon Rahaeng, Nong Luang, Chiang Ngoen, and Hua Diat. It is on the Ping River, 418 km north-north-west of Bangkok.

In computer science, the Tak function is a recursive function, named after Ikuo Takeuchi (竹内郁雄). It is defined as follows:

$\tau (x,y,z) = \begin{cases} \tau (\tau (x-1,y,z) ,\tau (y-1,z,x) ,\tau (z-1,x,y) ) & \text{if } y < x \\ z & \text{otherwise} \end{cases}$

def tak( x, y, z) if y < x tak( tak(x-1, y, z), tak(y-1, z, x), tak(z-1, x, y) ) else z end end

This function is often used as a benchmark for languages with optimization for recursion.

Tak or TAK may refer to:

Tak is a two-player abstract strategy game designed by James Ernest and Patrick Rothfuss and published by Cheapass Games in 2016. It was introduced in Patrick Rothfuss' book The Wise Man's Fear, Day 2 of The Kingkiller Chronicle.

The objective of Tak is to be the first to connect any two opposite edges of the board with their pieces, called "stones", creating a road. To this end, players will take turns attacking and capturing their opponent's pieces while supporting their own.

Cheapass Games created a Kickstarter campaign in order to bring the game to publication. The campaign was launched on April 19, 2016 with a goal of US$50,000; it ended on May 23, 2016 with 12,187 backers and US$1,351,142 pledged. Among tabletop games, it made #23 in funding and #13 in backer count at the time.