Recursion is like having your cell phone forward to itself, then calling yourself.
Got it?
If you’re not a Comp Sci major, you’ve probably never heard of recursion. The simplest way to understand it is to look at some simple Visual Basic code that performs a factorial calculation. First, let’s take a look at how recursion is defined:
Start out with some natural number N (in our example, 5)
The factorial of N is N * N-1…until N=1.
So, if we let N be 5, then 5! is 5*4!. Now, we “recurse”, letting N be 4. So 4! is 4*3!. So 5! = 5*4*3!. (I know most are probably lost now. We started out with 5 factorial, and then let 5 factorial equal 5*4 factorial. We then let 5 factorial equal 5*4*3 factorial, by repeatedly applying the recursive definition of factorial.) So, 3! is 3*2!, 2! is 2*1!, 1! is 1*0!, and 0! is defined to equal 1. So,
5! = 5*4! = 5*4*3! = 5*4*3*2! = 5*4*3*2*1! = 5*4*3*2*1*0! = 5*4*3*2*1*1
Here’s the code snippet:
Isn’t that cool? So what it is? it good for? Absolutely nothing. It’s a resource? hog and loads up the call stack, but from a theoretical perspective it’s really cool (occasionally there are practical applications as well – very infrequent in web programming). There are entire languages (Scheme) built around recursion.
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It can stretch your mind.? ?
As far as cell phones go. It didn’t work.
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