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Why is Recursion Useful? Some functions, such as factorial, are simplerto define in terms of other functions. As we shall see, however, many functions cannaturally be defined in terms of themselves. Properties of functions defined using recursioncan be proved using the simple but powerfulmathematical technique of induction.38

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