Recursion in C++

1. Objectives

The goals for this chapter are as follows:

To understand that complex problems that may otherwise be difficult to solve may have a simple recursive solution.
To learn how to formulate programs recursively.
To understand and apply the three laws of recursion.
To understand recursion as a form of iteration.
To implement the recursive formulation of a problem.
To understand how recursion is implemented by a computer system.