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Can you sum up "recursion" in programming in 5 words or less?
No this isn't a homework assignment, I'm just trying to help explain it, and I don't know how without giving a half hour speech and lots of code
4 Answers
- 1 decade ago
A function that calls itself.
An alternative to iteration.
Iteration using function calls.
5 words or less certainly limits the imagination.
The best way I've been able to explain it to others is a visual diagram of the function call stack so that they can see the path the program takes going down to the base case and then returning back through the call stack.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
it is a function that calls itself
