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Apr 18, 2017
| - What is mystery2(123)? | ||
| - What is mystery2(9005)? | ||
| - What is mystery2(-123)? | ||
| - What is mystery2(123)? 5 |
| - Activation Chain/Stack: The process when the method calls itself. (All the bubbles. The last bubble, before going up the chain again is the base case.) | ||
| - Activation Record/Call: Each call (One of the bubbles) | ||
| - Infinite Recursion/Stack Overflow/Stack too deep: When the base case is never reached. | ||
| - Tail Recursion: |
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We didn't actually cover tail recursion in class. We may in the future, but it's not necessary to know this moment.
| - Infinite Recursion/Stack Overflow/Stack too deep | ||
| - Tail Recursion | ||
| - Recursion: A method that calls itself. | ||
| - Recursive Case: The smaller problem that calls itself till the base case is hit. |
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I would remove "till the base case is hit" only because you don't technically have to hit a base case.
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looks good |
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