Question

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

Explain the benefits a recursive algorithm can provide. Use an example from a process in your organization or with which you are familiar.

Due Monday

Reply to at least 2 of your classmates. Be constructive and professional in your responses.

Answer 1

Recursive algorithms are typically useful in cases where the output of a particular step and its operations are used to generate the solution for next step (and subsequently its solutions for the next step). Unlike the sequential approach where we have to write the code for each step, the recursion reduces the size of the program by reusing the underlying operations. Though, calling the same function puts an overhead on the memory as the operations have to stacked recursively, only to be re-evaluated after the terminating condition's feedback.