Questions and Answers
What is the purpose of the base case in a recursive solution?
Terminate the recursive processing
Why is a divide-and-conquer strategy used in binary search?
To efficiently search through and divide the data
What is a recurrence relation used for?
Generating terms in a sequence
Why is computing the Fibonacci sequence recursively considered problematic?
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What does each box in a box trace roughly correspond to?
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What is NOT contained in each box in a box trace?
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What event triggers the creation of a new box in the box trace for a recursive function?
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What happens if a recursive function never reaches a base case?
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In a recursive method that writes a string of characters in reverse order, what defines the base case?
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What is a precondition for a method that computes the nth Fibonacci number?
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How many base cases does a recursive binary search of a sorted array have?
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When solving a problem by breaking it into smaller problems, how should the smaller problems be related to the base case?
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