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1 Department of Computer Engineering Recursive Problem Solving 2140101 Computer Programming for International Engineers

2 Department of Computer Engineering 2 2140101 Computer Programming for International Engineers I NTERNATIONAL S CHOOL OF E NGINEERING C HULALONGKORN U NIVERSITY Objectives Students should: Be able to explain the concept of recursive definition. Be able to use recursion in Java to solve problems.

3 Department of Computer Engineering 3 2140101 Computer Programming for International Engineers I NTERNATIONAL S CHOOL OF E NGINEERING C HULALONGKORN U NIVERSITY Recursive Problem Solving How to solve problem recursively ? Break a problem into identical but smaller, or simpler problems. Solve smaller problems to obtain a solution to the original one.

4 Department of Computer Engineering 4 2140101 Computer Programming for International Engineers I NTERNATIONAL S CHOOL OF E NGINEERING C HULALONGKORN U NIVERSITY Example: Summation Alternative Solution: public static int s(int n){ int sum = 0; for(int i=0;i<=n;i++) sum += i; return sum; } Let S ( n ) be the sum of integers from 0 to n. Mathematically, we can write: Java Implementation: Iterative Approach

5 Department of Computer Engineering 5 2140101 Computer Programming for International Engineers I NTERNATIONAL S CHOOL OF E NGINEERING C HULALONGKORN U NIVERSITY Example: Summation Write a method finding the sum of integers from 0 to n Let S ( n ) be the sum of integers from 0 to n. Mathematically, we can write: Java Implementation: public static int s(int n){ if(n==0) return 0; return s(n-1)+n; } Recursive Approach

6 Department of Computer Engineering 6 2140101 Computer Programming for International Engineers I NTERNATIONAL S CHOOL OF E NGINEERING C HULALONGKORN U NIVERSITY Example: Summation public static int s(int n){ if(n==0) return 0; return s(n-1)+n; } Solving S ( n ) is broken into solving S ( n -1), which is a simpler (but somewhat identical) problem. A case B B A

7 Department of Computer Engineering 7 2140101 Computer Programming for International Engineers I NTERNATIONAL S CHOOL OF E NGINEERING C HULALONGKORN U NIVERSITY Example: Summation In finding S (2), method invocation can be depicted as: public static int s(int n){ if(n==0) return 0; return s(n-1)+n; } S(2 )

8 Department of Computer Engineering 8 2140101 Computer Programming for International Engineers I NTERNATIONAL S CHOOL OF E NGINEERING C HULALONGKORN U NIVERSITY Example: Factorial Write a method finding n! Mathematically, we can write: Java Implementation: public static int factorial(int n){ int s = 1; for(int i=1;i<=n;i++) s *= i; return s; } Iterative Approach

9 Department of Computer Engineering 9 2140101 Computer Programming for International Engineers I NTERNATIONAL S CHOOL OF E NGINEERING C HULALONGKORN U NIVERSITY Example: Factorial Write a method finding n! Alternatively, we can write: Java Implementation: Recursive Approach public static int factorial(int n){ if(n==0) return 1; return factorial(n-1)*n; }

10 Department of Computer Engineering 10 2140101 Computer Programming for International Engineers I NTERNATIONAL S CHOOL OF E NGINEERING C HULALONGKORN U NIVERSITY factorial(4) Example: Factorial

11 Department of Computer Engineering 11 2140101 Computer Programming for International Engineers I NTERNATIONAL S CHOOL OF E NGINEERING C HULALONGKORN U NIVERSITY public static int s(int n){ if(n==0) return 0; return s(n-1)+n; } Recursive Method Design A recursive method must have two parts. – Base cases : determine the case where the recursive method invocation terminates – Recursive cases : recursive calls itself, but with simpler parameters public static intfactorial(int n){ if(n==0) return 1; return factorial(n-1)*n; } Recursive cases Base cases

12 Department of Computer Engineering 12 2140101 Computer Programming for International Engineers I NTERNATIONAL S CHOOL OF E NGINEERING C HULALONGKORN U NIVERSITY Example: Fibonacci Example: Fibonacci Numbers (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, …) –The Fibonacci numbers form a sequence of integer defined recursively by:

13 Department of Computer Engineering 13 2140101 Computer Programming for International Engineers I NTERNATIONAL S CHOOL OF E NGINEERING C HULALONGKORN U NIVERSITY Recursive Method Design public class FiboDemo { public static void main(String[] args) { final int n = 20; for(int i=0;i<20;i++) System.out.print(fibo(i)+","); System.out.println(); } public static int fibo(int n){ if(n<=0) return 0; if(n==1) return 1; return fibo(n-1)+fibo(n-2); }

14 Department of Computer Engineering 14 2140101 Computer Programming for International Engineers I NTERNATIONAL S CHOOL OF E NGINEERING C HULALONGKORN U NIVERSITY Recursive Method Design fibo(4)

15 Department of Computer Engineering 15 2140101 Computer Programming for International Engineers I NTERNATIONAL S CHOOL OF E NGINEERING C HULALONGKORN U NIVERSITY Costs of Recursion A recursive method accomplishes its task by successively calling itself. Therefore, there are many invocations of method involved. Each time a recursive call is made, a certain amount of memory must be allocated. For a recursive method that makes very deep recursions, a large amount of memory is required. Does this mean we should avoid recursive algorithms ?

16 Department of Computer Engineering 16 2140101 Computer Programming for International Engineers I NTERNATIONAL S CHOOL OF E NGINEERING C HULALONGKORN U NIVERSITY Example: Fibonacci Numbers Revisited import java.io.*; public class FiboDemo { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { BufferedReader stdin = new BufferedReader(newInputStreamReader(System.in)); System.out.print("Enter n:"); int n = Integer.parseInt(stdin.readLine()); System.out.println("---Using fibo()------------"); System.out.println("F("+n+")="+fibo(n)); System.out.println("---Using fiboNew()---------"); System.out.println("F("+n+")="+fiboNew(n)); } public static int fibo(int n){ System.out.println("fibo("+n+") is called."); if(n<=0) return 0; if(n==1) return 1; return fibo(n-1)+fibo(n-2); } // continue on the next page

17 Department of Computer Engineering 17 2140101 Computer Programming for International Engineers I NTERNATIONAL S CHOOL OF E NGINEERING C HULALONGKORN U NIVERSITY Example: Fibonacci Numbers Revisited // The same fibo() as the previous example public static int fiboNew(int n){ int [] remember = new int[n+1]; for(int i=0;i<=n;i++) remember[i]=-1; return fiboNew(n,remember); } public static int fiboNew(int n,int [] r){ System.out.println("fiboNew("+n+") is called."); if(n<=0){ r[0]=0; return r[0]; } if(n==1) r[n]=1; else r[n]=(r[n-1]==-1?fiboNew(n-1,r):r[n-1]) + (r[n-2]==-1?fiboNew(n-2,r):r[n-2]); return r[n]; }

18 Department of Computer Engineering 18 2140101 Computer Programming for International Engineers I NTERNATIONAL S CHOOL OF E NGINEERING C HULALONGKORN U NIVERSITY Example: Fibonacci Numbers Revisited From the picture, we can see that finding the 6th Fibonacci number using fibo() requires more than three times as many method invocations as it is required in the case of using fiboNew().

19 Department of Computer Engineering 19 2140101 Computer Programming for International Engineers I NTERNATIONAL S CHOOL OF E NGINEERING C HULALONGKORN U NIVERSITY Example: The Towers of Hanoi Sometimes, the easiest and the least error- prone ways to write programs for solving some problems are recursivemethods. Sometimes, an iterative approach is much more difficult than the recursive ones. See example “Towers of Hanoi”

20 Department of Computer Engineering 20 2140101 Computer Programming for International Engineers I NTERNATIONAL S CHOOL OF E NGINEERING C HULALONGKORN U NIVERSITY Towers of Hanoi Peg APeg BPeg C Goal: Move all disks on Peg A to PegB. Rules: 1. Only one disk can be moved at a time, and this disk must be top disk on a tower. 2. A larger disk cannot be placed on the top of a smaller disk. Using minimum number of moves

21 Department of Computer Engineering 21 2140101 Computer Programming for International Engineers I NTERNATIONAL S CHOOL OF E NGINEERING C HULALONGKORN U NIVERSITY Towers of Hanoi

22 Department of Computer Engineering 22 2140101 Computer Programming for International Engineers I NTERNATIONAL S CHOOL OF E NGINEERING C HULALONGKORN U NIVERSITY Example: The Towers of Hanoi import java.io.*; public class TowerOfHanoiDemo { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException{ BufferedReader stdin = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); System.out.print("Enter number of disks:"); int n = Integer.parseInt(stdin.readLine()); move(n,"A","B","C"); } // continue on the next page

23 Department of Computer Engineering 23 2140101 Computer Programming for International Engineers I NTERNATIONAL S CHOOL OF E NGINEERING C HULALONGKORN U NIVERSITY Example: The Towers of Hanoi public static void move(int n, String orgPole,String destPole,String otherPole){ String step; if(n<=1){ step = "Move Disk1 from Peg "+orgPole+" to Peg "+destPole; System.out.println(step); }else{ move(n-1,orgPole,otherPole,destPole); step = "Move Disk"+n+" from Peg "+orgPole+" to Peg "+destPole; System.out.println(step); move(n-1,otherPole,destPole,orgPole); }

24 Department of Computer Engineering 24 2140101 Computer Programming for International Engineers I NTERNATIONAL S CHOOL OF E NGINEERING C HULALONGKORN U NIVERSITY Example: The Towers of Hanoi Try solving it using an iterative approach.

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