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## Definitions
Define the following:

- Recursion
- Recursive Case
- Base Case
- Activation Chain/Stack
- Activation Record/Call
- Infinite Recursion/Stack Overflow/Stack too deep
- Tail Recursion
- Recursion: a function that calls itself (see recursion)
- Recursive Case: The function that is called within itself, should bring you closer to the base case.
- Base Case: the base case is what stops the recursion from infinite recursion
- Activation Chain/Stack - This still isn't clear to me
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This is the series of recursive calls that have to be made to solve a recursive problem. So the chain of "bubbles".

- Activation Record/Call - This still isn't clear to me
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An activiation record is a single call of the recursive method. So one "bubble" if you will.

- Infinite Recursion/Stack Overflow/Stack too deep: Recursion that would go on forever
- Tail Recursion: With each evaluation of the recursive call, the running total is updated.
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this is not correct - but we hadn't covered in class


## Tracing through a recursive method

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end
```

- What is mystery1(5)?
- What is mystery1(10)?
- What is mystery1(0)?
- What is mystery1(5)? 15
- What is mystery1(10)? 55
- What is mystery1(0)? Infinite recursion

### Trace #2
```
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end
```

- What is mystery2(123)?
- What is mystery2(9005)?
- What is mystery2(-123)?
- What is mystery2(123)? 6
- What is mystery2(9005)? 14
- What is mystery2(-123)? -123
- _Added Fun: How could we make `mystery2(-123)` work the way we might expect it to work instead of the way it does?_

### Trace #3
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end
```

- What is mystery3(1)?
- What is mystery3(13)?
- What is mystery3(-6)?
- What is mystery3(1)? 100
- What is mystery3(13)? 100
- What is mystery3(-6)? 200

### Trace #4
```
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end
```

- What is mystery4(10,2)?
- What is mystery4(4,3)?
- What is mystery4(5,0)?
- What is mystery4(10,2)? 100
- What is mystery4(4,3)? 64
- What is mystery4(5,0)? 1

### Trace #5
```
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end
```

- What is mystery5("hi")?
- What is mystery5("")?
- What is mystery5("Hi, there!")?
- What is mystery5("hi")? **
- What is mystery5("")?
- What is mystery5("Hi, there!")? ********
- _Added Fun: How could we make only alphabetic characters to be changed to stars?_

### Trace #6
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end
```

- What is mystery6("goodnight moon")?
- What is mystery6("Ada Developers Academy")?
- What is mystery6("Hi, there!")?
- What is mystery6("goodnight moon")? "moon goodnight"
- What is mystery6("Ada Developers Academy")? "Academy Ada Developers"
- What is mystery6("Hi, there!")? "there! Hi,"
- _Added Fun: How could we make the reversal happen by letter, instead of by word (i.e. Make it so that mystery6("goodnight moon") returned "noom thgindoog")?_