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loops with relevance to computer programming are a sequence of instructions that is continually repeated until a certain condition is reached or a condition wasn't met.

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Do recursive algorithms generally perform better than their for-loop counterpart?

I'm sure this is not a challenge for you but it remains an open question for me: Is it wise to prefer a recursive algorithm over its for-loop counterpart? E.g. take the evaluation of the natural log …
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