A recursive method may call other methods, including calling itself. A recursive method has: 1. a base case -- a case that returns a value or exits from a method without performing a recursive call.
2. a recursive case -- calling the method again with a smaller case..
Study the recursive method given below.
For example, this call recursiveMethod (5); returns 15:
public static int recursiveMethod (int num) (
if (num == 0)
return 1;
else {
if (numX2!=0)
return num * recursiveMethod (num -1);
else
return recursiveMethod (num-1);
}
}
1 What is the base case?
2. What does the following statement check?
3. What does the method do?