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Coding Forum Recursion Contest

To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.

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Recursion is an important concept in programming and heavily used. This contest aims to test your recursion concepts and how well you can apply it. Note that you can use other concepts but the main goal here is to use recursion and solve the problems! Happy coding!

Prizes

  • No prizes. This is an education contest

Rules

  • The creator of this contest is solely responsible for setting and communicating the eligibility requirements associated with prizes awarded to participants, as well as for procurement and distribution of all prizes. The contest creator holds HackerRank harmless from and against any and all claims, losses, damages, costs, awards, settlements, orders, or fines.
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  • "A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world."
  • If any participants are found copying or a plagiarism a found, STRICT actions will be taken on such participants and in such cases Organizers reserve rights to disqualify such participants.

Scoring

  • Each challenge has a pre-determined score.
  • A participant’s score depends on the number of test cases a participant’s code submission successfully passes.
  • If a participant submits more than one solution per challenge, then the participant’s score will reflect the highest score achieved. In a game challenge, the participant's score will reflect the last code submission.
  • Participants are ranked by score. If two or more participants achieve the same score, then the tie is broken by the total time taken to submit the last solution resulting in a higher score

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