Which of these is not true about recursion?

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Programming and Problem Solving through Python : Functions in Python

Which of these is not true about recursion?

A. Making the code look clean

B. A complex task can be broken into sub-problems

C. Recursive calls take up less memory

D. Sequence generation is easier than a nested iteration

Solution

C. Recursive calls take up less memory

Explanation

Recursive calls take up a lot of memory and time as memory is taken up each time the function is called.