/** * File: recursion.js * Created Time: 2023-08-28 * Author: Gaofer Chou (gaofer-chou@qq.com) */ /* Recursion */ function recur(n) { // Base case if (n === 1) return 1; // Recurse: make a recursive call const res = recur(n - 1); // Unwind: return the 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: make a recursive call for (let i = n; i > 0; i--) { // Simulate recursive calls by pushing onto the stack stack.push(i); } // Unwind: return the result while (stack.length) { // Simulate unwinding by popping from the stack res += stack.pop(); } // res = 1+2+3+...+n return res; } /* Tail recursion */ function tailRecur(n, res) { // Base case if (n === 0) return res; // Tail-recursive call return tailRecur(n - 1, res + n); } /* Fibonacci sequence: recursion */ function fib(n) { // Base cases: f(1) = 0, f(2) = 1 if (n === 1 || n === 2) return n - 1; // Recursive calls: f(n) = f(n-1) + f(n-2) const res = fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2); // Return the result f(n) return res; } /* Driver code */ const n = 5; let res; res = recur(n); console.log(`Sum from the recursive function: res = ${res}`); res = forLoopRecur(n); console.log(`Sum from simulating recursion with iteration: res = ${res}`); res = tailRecur(n, 0); console.log(`Sum from the tail-recursive function: res = ${res}`); res = fib(n); console.log(`Fibonacci term ${n} is ${res}`);