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Recursion vs Iteration

Explore the differences between recursion and iteration in C++ programming. Understand how both methods achieve repetition, their impact on code length, performance, and memory use, and when to apply recursion for clearer code or iteration for efficiency.

Recursive solution

We can implement a recursive solution iteratively. Let’s write a program to calculate the factorial of a number using a loop. In the iterative solution, we are not calling the same problem with a simpler version; instead, we are using the counter ...