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Recursion

Functions that call themselves, base cases and tracing recursive calls.

In review 6th Year Higher
Helps to know first: Functions and modular code
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What is the name for the condition in a recursive function that returns a result directly, without making another recursive call?
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Without it, the function would keep calling itself until Python stops it with an error.

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