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Section 5.1 Objectives

The goals for this chapter are as follows:
  • To understand that complex problems that may otherwise be difficult to solve may have a simple recursive solution.
  • To learn how to formulate programs recursively.
  • To understand and apply the three laws of recursion.
  • To understand recursion as a form of iteration.
  • To implement the recursive formulation of a problem.
  • To understand how recursion is implemented by a computer system.
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