How to pronounce “base case”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• The part of a recursive definition or algorithm that is not defined in terms of itself.
• The basis in mathematical induction, showing that a statement holds when n is equal to the lowest value that n is given in the question (usually 0 or 1).

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