It's pretty much the same thing. In writing, you have a blank page for you to start with.

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And conceptually, the idea of cubing a value feels like you could package that up into a little box, a little tool that takes input, a value, and returns output the answer A* so you don't have to constantly do A star, A*A So this program ,at the end of today, is pretty much the same thing.

概念上，算一个值的立方就像是,你可以把一个值打包放在一个小盒子里,一个用来接收输入的工具,一个值，然后返回一个答案,所以你并不需要一直使用，等等。，A，star，，A，，and，so，forth。,这个程序，最后，是一个差不多的东西。

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So, the curious thing about recursion is that pretty much always can you implement this idea of doing the same thing again and again and again but with smaller bytes each time.

可见，递归算法中新奇的一点是,为了实现一个想法,你可以一遍又一遍地做相同的事情,但每次的规模都会有所减小。

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