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In the real world you will almost never use recursion. You'll use loops with known bounds because the worst case for everything will be known and controlled. There are a handful of guys working in ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The factorial of 5 is 120. The factorial of 10 is 3,628,800. Programmers can take one of two ...