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Discussion on: What is Recursion, and Why Shouldn't You Use It?

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Replies for: We use cache for such disadv, by storing pre-calculated fib(n) and checking if it exists, that way you avoid the hassle of calculating fib(1) 51 ti...

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Raymond Price Author •

Yeah, memoization. That's the second method I mentioned for mitigating the issues of recursion.