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 implementations …

Michael Goodrich et al provide a really clever algorithm in Data Structures and Algorithms in Java, for solving fibonacci recursively in linear time by returning an array of [fib (n), fib (n-1)].

Sep 25, 2014 · I'm new to java programming, and our teacher taught us the concept of recursion and I found it to be a bit complicated. All I understood that it works like a loop (like the factorial of 4) but I sti...

Dec 10, 2008 · As Java is always pass-by-value, to recursively reverse a linked list in Java, make sure to return the "new head" (the head node after reversion) at the end of the recursion.

Create getter and setter helper methods to increase the depth of recursion. Your method list, will call itself, with the same array, but only after you check that the depth is not bigger then the size of array.

Oct 25, 2013 · For one of the questions i was asked to solve, I found the max value of an array using a for loop, so i tried to find it using recursion and this is what I came up with: public static int findMax(...

I've got two different methods, one is calculating Fibonacci sequence to the nth element by using iteration and the other one is doing the same thing using recursive method. Program example looks l...

Jan 20, 2014 · I have a problem with numbers that I want to increment using a recursive function. The function didn't return the value as I was expecting. Upon debugging I saw the numbers being …

Nov 1, 2014 · I have to write a power method in Java. It receives two ints and it doesn't matter if they are positive or negative numbers. It should have complexity of O(logN). It also must use recursion. My cur...

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