
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.
algorithm - recursion versus iteration - Stack Overflow
2020年2月23日 · Is it correct to say that everywhere recursion is used a for loop could be used? And if recursion is usually slower what is the technical reason for ever using it over for loop iteration? And if i...
What are the advantages and disadvantages of recursion?
2011年3月9日 · With respect to using recursion over non-recursive methods in sorting algorithms or, for that matter, any algorithm what are its pros and cons?
What is the difference between iteration and recursion?
2016年2月19日 · 0 Recursion and iteration are different ways to think about a solution. It would be dificult to explain in depth the difference in full scope. In your sample code, you aleady showed the …
Real-world examples of recursion - Stack Overflow
2008年9月20日 · There is no recursion in the real-world. Recursion is a mathematical abstraction. You can model lots of things using recursion. In that sense, Fibonacci is absolutely real-world, as there …
Recursion vs loops - Stack Overflow
2009年3月19日 · 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 built from …
Understanding how recursive functions work - Stack Overflow
2014年9月5日 · 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 solution and tried …
performance - Recursion or Iteration? - Stack Overflow
2011年6月24日 · Recursion is more simple (and thus - more fundamental) than any possible definition of an iteration. You can define a Turing-complete system with only a pair of combinators (yes, even a …
Convert recursion to iteration - Stack Overflow
Well, in general, recursion can be mimicked as iteration by simply using a storage variable. Note that recursion and iteration are generally equivalent; one can almost always be converted to the other. A …
list - Basics of recursion in Python - Stack Overflow
2015年5月13日 · 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 the …