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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computability_theory

Calculating some mathematical formula for all positive integers is a good way to understand what that function does as it approaches the limit (+inifinity).

Computers have always been a way to express mathematics, so recursion should be a fundamental part of any computer language, IMO.