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Recursion

Understand how recursion works in Kotlin, including its risks like stack overflow and how tail recursion optimization can prevent these issues. Learn through examples how to implement recursion efficiently and recognize its limitations in cases with multiple recursive calls.

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Recursion is a function invoking itself with new arguments. Many well-known algorithms, such as Depth First Search, rely on recursion. Here is an example of a very inefficient function that uses recursion to calculate the sum of all the numbers in a given ...