I've been playing with recursion, it's very satisfying. However, it appears that even if I sys.setrecursionlimit(100000), it blows up at about 24,000 (appears to reset IDLE). I guess there must be a lot of overhead with recursion, if only 24k times are killing my memory?
I'm playing with a challenge a friend gave me: add each number, up to 1000, with it's reverse, continuing the process until you've got a palindrome number. Then report back the number of iterations it takes. There's one number, 196, that never returns, so I skip it. It's a perfect place to practice recursion (I do it in the adding part, and the palindrome checking part), but apparently I can't help but blow up my machine... -- Keith
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