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Lesson 19 — Recursion
Functions calling themselves
Recursion solves a problem by reducing it to a smaller case, with a base case (the simplest input) to stop. factorial(5) is 5 * factorial(4), and factorial(1) is just 1.
Finish factorial so factorial(5) prints 120.
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