(12C Platinum) Successive Discounts

[Thomas Klemm]

(12-24-2018 06:32 AM)Gamo Wrote:  … a recursive function is one that calls itself again to repeat the code.

That might also be a function ping calling a function pong and vice versa.
Or involve even more functions.

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Quote:The old recruiting practice says, "Never hire a developer who computes the factorial using Recursion".

These times are fortunately over.

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Quote:During the recursive call the values of the local fields of the method are placed on the method stack until the subtask performed by a recursive call is completed.

Cf. tail call and continuation-passing style.

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Quote:(the java.util.Stack class is a good candidate for this job).

You don't want future generations hate you, do you?

Cheers
Thomas