So, the curious thing about recursion is that pretty much always can you implement this idea of doing the same thing again and again and again but with smaller bytes each time.

可见，递归算法中新奇的一点是,为了实现一个想法,你可以一遍又一遍地做相同的事情,但每次的规模都会有所减小。

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