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Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The factorial of 5 is 120. The factorial of 10 is 3,628,800. Programmers can take one of two ...

Human brains can't compute endless loops, so we rely on public cues and shared signals—eye contact, rituals, news headlines—to establish common knowledge without consciously working through each ...

In the real world you will almost never use recursion. You'll use loops with known bounds because the worst case for everything will be known and controlled. There are a handful of guys working in ...