The other answers mention various algorithms, which is completely fine, but if you want a bit more "concrete" example, you could list all files in some directory and its subdirectories. The …

Sep 20, 2008 · 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, …

I never use CTE with recursion. I was just reading an article on it. This article shows employee info with the help of Sql server CTE and recursion. It is basically showing employees and their …

I'm confused with the last line especially because if n = 5 for example, then fibonacci (4) + fibonacci (3) would be called and so on but I don't understand how this algorithm calculates …

Mar 20, 2013 · I almost understand how tail recursion works and the difference between it and a normal recursion. I only don't understand why it doesn't require stack to remember its return …

There are a number of good explanations of recursion in this thread, this answer is about why you shouldn't use it in most languages.* In the majority of major imperative language …

Feb 19, 2016 · 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 …

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?

Aug 29, 2008 · Tail recursion is basically transfer a recursion function call to a while loop when the compiler does tail recursion optimization. If the compiler doesn't do tail recursion …

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...