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Timeline for Recursion and Helper Function

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Mar 7, 2013 at 5:38 vote accept Mat.S
Feb 28, 2013 at 6:42 history edited steveha CC BY-SA 3.0
add discussion of examples
Feb 28, 2013 at 6:22 comment added steveha According to this discussion on MathOverflow, there is "no 'good' answer" for negative factorial. I had never really thought about negative factorials so I will express no opinion, but I thought this was interesting. mathoverflow.net/questions/10124/the-factorial-of-1-2-3
Feb 28, 2013 at 6:20 history edited steveha CC BY-SA 3.0
improve example
Feb 28, 2013 at 6:16 comment added Mat.S Ok, I added some examples with the type of data structure I am learning about.
Feb 28, 2013 at 6:14 comment added Stjepan Bakrac As is any non-integer value, but neither is used very often for programming purposes (unless you're working on a math-related project).
Feb 28, 2013 at 6:11 comment added Makoto Nitpick: 0! = 1. Any value less than 0 is defined by the Gamma function.
Feb 28, 2013 at 6:10 history edited steveha CC BY-SA 3.0
whoops, fix bug in example
Feb 28, 2013 at 6:03 history answered steveha CC BY-SA 3.0