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[QUOTE="Wrichik Basu, post: 6223983, member: 623143"] That was a good article. It is true that many of us, especially the beginners, tend to use recursion without even understanding it's complexity for larger inputs. While teaching Python, our Professor was stressing the same. Often, when we need to find the sum of a series correct upto certain decimal places, we tend to do it in a straightforward fashion. But our Professor stressed that we should rather try to find how the nth term depends on the (n-1)th term, and then use that in the sum. In this way, factorials can often be ignored completely. I do remember that when I used to do programs on data structures in Java using SLL, DLL or circular LL, I would often face a StackOverflow exception, presumably because the recursion didn't terminate as the base case was ill-defined. [/QUOTE]
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