Section 18.3 Example Using Recursion: Factorials
• Either omitting the base case or writing the recursion step incorrectly so that it does not converge on the base case can cause infinite recursion (p. 781), eventually exhausting memory. This error is analogous to the problem of an infinite loop in an iterative (nonrecursive) solution.
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