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  1. What is recursion and when should I use it? - Stack Overflow

    Recursion is a tree, with branches and leaves, called parents and children respectively. When you use a recursion algorithm, you more or less consciously are building a tree from the data.

  2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of recursion?

    Mar 9, 2011 · With respect to using recursion over non-recursive methods in sorting algorithms or, for that matter, any algorithm what are its pros and cons?

  3. Recursion vs loops - Stack Overflow

    Mar 19, 2009 · Recursion is used to express an algorithm that is naturally recursive in a form that is more easily understandable. A "naturally recursive" algorithm is one where the answer is …

  4. list - Basics of recursion in Python - Stack Overflow

    May 13, 2015 · Tail Call Recursion Once you understand how the above recursion works, you can try to make it a little bit better. Now, to find the actual result, we are depending on the value of …

  5. performance - Recursion or Iteration? - Stack Overflow

    Jun 24, 2011 · 19 Recursion is more costly in memory, as each recursive call generally requires a memory address to be pushed to the stack - so that later the program could return to that …

  6. Understanding how recursive functions work - Stack Overflow

    Sep 5, 2014 · Recursion started making sense to me when I stopped reading what others say about it or seeing it as something I can avoid and just wrote code. I found a problem with a …

  7. Is recursion ever faster than looping? - Stack Overflow

    Why? Because recursion is typically well founded over some data structure, inducing an Initial F-algebra and allowing you to prove some properties about termination along with inductive …

  8. java - What is recursion - Stack Overflow

    Nov 30, 2012 · Recursion is a programming technique where a method can call itself as part of its calculation (sometimes you can have more than one method - the methods would then …

  9. algorithm - What is tail recursion? - Stack Overflow

    Aug 29, 2008 · Tail recursion optimization is to remove call stack for the tail recursion call, and instead do a jump, like in a while loop. But if you do use the return value of a recursive call …

  10. python - recursive factorial function - Stack Overflow

    How can I combine these two functions into one recursive function to have this result: factorial(6) 1! = 1 2! = 2 3! = 6 4! = 24 5! = 120 6! = 720 This is the current code for my factorial functi...