Practice Questions for Recursion | Set 1

Explain the functionality of following functions.

Question 1

int fun1(int x, int y)  
{ 
  if(x == 0) 
    return y; 
  else
    return fun1(x - 1,  x + y); 
} 

Answer: The function fun() calculates and returns ((1 + 2 … + x-1 + x) +y) which is x(x+1)/2 + y. For example if x is 5 and y is 2, then fun should return 15 + 2 = 17.

Question 2

void fun2(int arr[], int start_index, int end_index) 
{ 
  if(start_index >= end_index)    
     return; 
  int min_index;  
  int temp;  
  
  /* Assume that minIndex() returns index of minimum value in  
    array arr[start_index...end_index] */
  min_index = minIndex(arr, start_index, end_index); 
  
  temp = arr[start_index]; 
  arr[start_index] = arr[min_index]; 
  arr[min_index] = temp;         
  
  fun2(arr, start_index + 1, end_index); 
}      