https://mellowd.co.uk/tags/recursive/ Recent content in Recursive on mellowd.co.uk Hugo en-gb Mon, 20 Apr 2015 17:50:24 +0000 https://mellowd.co.uk/post/visualising-recursive-functions/ Mon, 20 Apr 2015 17:50:24 +0000 https://mellowd.co.uk/post/visualising-recursive-functions/ <p>I’ve been doing a lot of coding practise, and recursive functions are one of those things that’s easier to visualise than think about.</p> <p>At it’s heart, a recursive function is one that calls itself in over and over again until a result is found. At first that doesn’t make sense so let’s look at an example.</p> <h2 id="factorial">Factorial</h2> <p>The factorial of a number is the product off all numbers from that number down to 1. Two examples follow:</p>