Recursion for Dummies

recursion In programming terms, recursion is a function calling itself until a base condition is true to produce the correct output In other words, to solve a problem,

Recursion enables the natural decomposition of the problem into subproblems and their subsequent solving By applying recursion to divide-and-conquer algorithms recursion The act of a function calling itself, recursion is used to solve problems that contain smaller sub-problems A recursive function can