/** * File: recursion.js * Created Time: 2023-08-28 * Author: Gaofer Chou (gaofer-chou@qq.com) */ /* Recursion */ function recur(n) { // Termination condition if (n === 1) return 1; // Recurse: recursive call const res = recur(n - 1); // Return: return result return n + res; } /* Simulate recursion using iteration */ function forLoopRecur(n) { // Use an explicit stack to simulate the system call stack const stack = []; let res = 0; // Recurse: recursive call for (let i = n; i > 0; i--) { // Simulate "recurse" with "push" stack.push(i); } // Return: return result while (stack.length) { // Simulate "return" with "pop" res += stack.pop(); } // res = 1+2+3+...+n return res; } /* Tail recursion */ function tailRecur(n, res) { // Termination condition if (n === 0) return res; // Tail recursive call return tailRecur(n - 1, res + n); } /* Fibonacci sequence: recursion */ function fib(n) { // Termination condition f(1) = 0, f(2) = 1 if (n === 1 || n === 2) return n - 1; // Recursive call f(n) = f(n-1) + f(n-2) const res = fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2); // Return result f(n) return res; } /* Driver Code */ const n = 5; let res; res = recur(n); console.log(`Recursion sum result res = ${res}`); res = forLoopRecur(n); console.log(`Using iteration to simulate recursion sum result res = ${res}`); res = tailRecur(n, 0); console.log(`Tail recursion sum result res = ${res}`); res = fib(n); console.log(`The ${n}th Fibonacci number is ${res}`);