Recursion

Logistics

• Due: Thursday, May 28th no later than 5pm.
• Submission instructions: complete the assigned number of activities in each of the assigned subsections of Chapter 16. You do not need to submit anything to Brightspace.
• Deadline reminder: once this deadline passes, Runestone Interactive will no longer allow you to collect points for completing the activities.

Key ideas

From chapter 16:

• A recursive algorithm must obey 3 laws:
1. A recursive algorithm must have a base case.
2. A recursive algorithm must change its state and move toward the base case.
3. A recursive algorithm must call itself, recursively.
• For some problems, a recursive solution may be more elegant than an iterative solution.

Assignment

• Complete the required number of activities for each subsection in Recursion.

Grading - 10 points

• 10 points - the required number of activities were completed for each subsection before the deadline.

The factorial of a number, written n!, is the product of the integers 1 through n. For example, 5! equals 1*2*3*4*5, or 120. We choose to define 0! to be 1, the multiplicative identity. Write two Python functions, iterative_factorial and recursive_factorial, which take in an integer greater than or equal to zero and return the factorial of the integer. iterative_factorial should use iteration and recursive_factorial should use recursion.