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What is Stack Overflow Error? A stack overflow error is a critical runtime error that occurs when a program attempts to use more memory than is allocated to its call ...

In the real world you will almost never use recursion. You'll use loops with known bounds because the worst case for everything will be known and controlled. There are a handful of guys working in ...