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recursion termination

(definition)

Definition: The point when conditions are met and a recursive algorithm ceases calling itself and begins to return values.

Author: PR


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Patrick Rodgers, "recursion termination", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Paul E. Black, ed. 17 December 2004. (accessed TODAY) Available from: https://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/recursiontrm.html