A recursive function can call itself forever, but that's generally not preferred. It's often a good idea to include a condition in the function definition that allows it to stop calling itself.

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To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. You may think of recursion as a programming structure where a function calls itself. We call such a function a recursive function. Many ...

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.