Feb 3, 2015 · Also worth noting, python by default has a limit to the depth of recursion available, to avoid absorbing all of the computer's memory. On my computer this is 1000. I don't know if …

Jan 26, 2009 · The only way I can think of to do this amounts to giving the function a name: fact = lambda x: 1 if x == 0 else x * fact(x-1) or alternately, for earlier versions of python: fact = …

May 13, 2015 · Whenever you face a problem like this, try to express the result of the function with the same function. In your case, you can get the result by adding the first number with the …

Which makes sense according to the (n-1) + (n-2) function of the Fibonacci series. How does Python execute recursion that contains another recursion not within but inside the same code …

In the majority of major imperative language implementations (i.e. every major implementation of C, C++, Basic, Python, Ruby,Java, and C#) iteration is vastly preferable to recursion. To see …

Two notes: 1) the inclass function doesn't do anything useless, it just assigns an instance of mine to the local name called self and then throws it away, and 2) I don't see any real reason to …

There isn't any loop in the first place (recursion doesn't create a loop), so there's nothing to "break" from. But the problem is that simply calling recursively has no effect on what will be …

The function should expect a string. If there is more then one letter in the string compare the first and the last letter. If 1 or 0 letters, return true. If the two letters are equal call the function then …

First it’s better to know when you execute a recursive function in Python on a large input ( > 10^4), you might encounter a “maximum recursion depth exceeded error”. The sys module in Python …

Mar 27, 2011 · You can define a Counter callable class with which you can wrap any function: class Counter(object) : def __init__(self, fun) : self._fun = fun self.counter=0 def …