So far so good, but what has all of this got to do with something far less familiar – recursion? Recursion is just another way of repeating things. It’s simple at first but it has a habit of becoming ...

Recursion is interesting from the point of view of complexity theory and computer science in general because it is the natural way of implementing algorithms that take exponential time. This isn't ...

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