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AP Computer Science 1.2 Standard Algorithms. What is the output of Recurse(5)?


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Thank you We sneak here's your shmoop du jour featuring

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a function called re curse Previously on lee used by

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ancient mummies with all right Well what is the output

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of re curse five i'm thinking we're thinking they're your

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potential answers All right Uh thank And let's Go boy

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don't be deceived This little recursive function looks simple but

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noticed here that unless the imager an equal zero it's

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going to do a little math on whatever imager was

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given in call itself again And as long as n

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is a non zero value this function will keep calling

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itself over and over and over and over again You're

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done If an equal zero return one All right That

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peace is important It's the rikers in loops based case

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The condition that must be met to put an end

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to this madness No zero on then It's not over

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Right Well when we finally do get into equal zero

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the function will return a one The question asked us

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to consider end to be five Well being that five

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is not equal to zero We instead move allowed to

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one plus two times recursive Five minutes to five minutes

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To three So now we're going back over the function

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with a three instead of a five Well guess what

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three is also not equals Zero so we're looking at

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one plus two times recursive three months two three minus

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two is one and again top one is not zero

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one plus two times recursive one minus two but one

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minus two is negative one in california Anyway negative one

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is not zero one plus two times workers of negative

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one negative too well negative one minus two is negative

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three and we can see where this is going on

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a downward spiral that will never crawl out of because

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we've skipped zero entirely and we'll never get in back

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up to meet the bass case So the answer is 00:01:50.313 --> [endTime] e for ever Never never Oh

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