Thread: Even or Odd (practice problem)

Originally Posted by homer_3

Your logic is wrong. If you passed in odd(2), 2!=1 so odd() would call even(2-1), 1!=0 so even would call odd(1-1), and next thing you know you are dealing with negative numbers, which your code doesn't handle.

Is this warm up supposed to familiarize you with recursion?

Aaaaaand another one who didn't read my post...

Originally Posted by EVOEx

Aaaaaand another one who didn't read my post...

You know what they say about assumptions. I read it. It didn't mention recursion. I was curious if the OP took that route to solving the problem because he was doing an exercise in recursion.