Database System Concepts
Database System Concepts
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ISBN: 9780078022159
Author: Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Transcribed Image Text:Find the logic error(s) in the following recursive function, and explain how to correct it (them). This function should find the sum of the values from 0 to n. In [3]: def sum (n): if n == 0: ...: return 0 else: return n + sum (n)
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def sum(n):
if n == 0:
return 0
else:
return n + sum(n)
Logical errors are
If n == 0 then return 0 is fine
What if n is less then 0
So use condition like if n<=0
If(n<=0)
return n;
else
return n+sum(n) ;
Here instead of sum(n) use sum(n-1)
So it will used all but one number every time else it keep on adding same number
Use like this
return n + sum(n-1) ;
So it will add every recursion time
n means last number
and n-1 is last but one number
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