(idea) by sl0throp Thu Mar 09 2000 at 22:35:01
to use the programming metaphor:
The number of recursive calls made in your program's quest for the base case. Usually, you don't want infinite recursion, so eventually the program does reach the base case, stops making recursive calls, and each call returns up (uh, or down, depending on how you like your stacks) the call stack.
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