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This is a weird one… I suppose I can extract the correct answer i don’t feel comfortable continuing unless I get that completely.
Although the recursion in a fractional function is understandable, or a simple countdown, when working with the array it pi**es me off that I just don’t get it.
The part which I don’t get is how an array is defined in the variable numbers in this example, through a function? It seems to me that nobody ever defined an array in this specific case/answer. So how the endNum is pushed into the array, as I don’t see any array created in the first call of the function?
function rangeOfNumbers(startNum, endNum) {
if (endNum - startNum === 0) {
return [startNum];
}
else {
var numbers = rangeOfNumbers(startNum, endNum - 1);
numbers.push(endNum);
return numbers;
}
What am I missing?
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Challenge: Use Recursion to Create a Range of Numbers
it’s not the first function call that creates an array, it’s the last one
in recursion you have a function (1) calling an other function (2) calling an other function (3) … calling an other function (N)
each of these functions will not complete until the following ones are completed. So, at one point the series reach the base case with the Nth, and the others start resolving
N gets an output, which is passed to N - 1, so N-1 gets an output, which is […] passed to 3, and also 3 uses that received value to compute and create its own output, which is passed to 2 that now can finally finish computing and create its own output, which is passed to 1, which can also finally compute its output, and return a value
Hey, thank you very much for your reply. So I suppose this should work also:
Let’s say we have a countDownToArray function which stores all the numbers until it hits 0 into an array. The Chrome Developer Console returns an error: “cdToArray is not defined”.
function countDownToArray(n) {
if (n <= 0) {
return [n] }
else {
var cdToArray = countDownToArray(n-1);
cdtoArray.push(n);
return cdToArray }
}
you may want to avoid spelling mistakes when you try those things
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