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Class 25

Held: Monday, 6 March 2017

We consider a different form of recursion, one based on the construction of *recursive helper procedures that take additional parameters. Along the way, we consider the idea of tail recursion. We also explore how careless design of recursive procedures can inadvertently lead to slow execution.*

Preliminaries

Overview

  • Basics of helper recursion
  • Tail recursion
  • Why use tail recursion?

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