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29 Apr 2024

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26 Apr 2024

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Multiple recursion helpful info - Tower of Hanoi

Hi everyone,

after some time searching online for answers on how multiple recursion functions are called, here's what helped me:


First I used the function explained in the youtube video from the same teacher linked in this discussion https://365datascience.com/q/3a349f6924 (the one in the course works as well, I just worked on this because it seemed more linear):



Then understanding the decision tree -> since our function calls itself twice inside it, each time it's called the tree splits in 2: 


Then we need to clear out what is happening to the variables locally during the calls, since they move around quite a lot:


Hope that helps, happy coding!

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29 Apr 2024

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Hey Jessica,

This looks great! Amazing work! Thanks so much for sharing with the other people taking the course.

Visualizing recursive calls as a decision tree is an excellent method to comprehend the branching nature of recursion, especially in multiple recursion scenarios. Each node in the tree represents a function call, and each branch represents a new recursive call initiated by the current function call. This visualization helps in understanding how the recursive calls expand exponentially.

Best,

Ned

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