This Java recursion tutorial shows you how to create a recursive Java factorial function and compares these methods to iterative ones.

Some inventions operate in a recursive or iterative manner. This could be so of a machine that repeats actions or functions on a single article or to produce multiple articles, or operates on data ...

Recursion has more expressive power than iterative looping constructs. I say this because a while loop is equivalent to a tail recursive function and recursive functions need not be tail recursive.

My recursive solution isn't performing very well, and so I'm thinking of writing an iterative version to compare, but I don't know if there's a better solution altogether?<BR><BR> (forgot to ...