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Examine the most important concept or method used when analyzing problems involving recursion. Provide a rationale with your response.
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Recursion is a method of solving problems that involves breaking a problem down into smaller and smaller sub problems until you get to a small enough problem that it can be solved trivially. Usually recursion involves a function calling itself.
to calculate the sum of a list of numbers such as: [1,3,5,7,9]
def listsum(numList): theSum = 0 for i in numList: theSum = theSum + i return theSum print(listsum([1,3,5,7,9]))
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