Denison CS181/DA210 Homework

Before you turn this problem in, make sure everything runs as expected. This is a combination of restarting the kernel and then running all cells (in the menubar, select Kernel$\rightarrow$Restart And Run All).

Make sure you fill in any place that says YOUR CODE HERE or "YOUR ANSWER HERE".

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Short Answer Questions

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Consider the following piece of code:

def f(x):
    if x == 0 or x == 1:
        return x
    return f(x - 1) + f(x - 2)

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Part A (1 point)

Describe, in words, what this code does, and how it does it.

YOUR ANSWER HERE

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Part B (1 points)

For what inputs will this function not behave as expected? What will happen?

YOUR ANSWER HERE