[Tutor] strange recursion result

[Nate Bargmann]

On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 04:01:30PM -0600, mbc2@netdoor.com wrote:
> 
> It works fine if I feed it numbers between 1 and 999. Anything larger than
> 999 doesn't work. I get an error in the "return
> (n-1)+rlgncount(n-1)" line.

I'm no expert in recursion.  However, I ran your script both in Idle and
as an executable script.  It worked fine each time, using the values of
1000, 100, and 1001.  When I set n to 10000 I received the following error:

  File "./recurse.py", line 7, in rlgncount
    return (n-1)+rlgncount(n-1)
RuntimeError: Maximum recursion depth exceeded

The first two lines were repeated quite a number of times, so I'm not
sure of the limit to  recursion depth.  Whether or not that is something
that may be changed, I don't know, but it's the only error I found.  I'm
running Debian 2.2r2 with Python 1.5.2.

- Nate >>

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