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What is a base case?

  1. The point at which the recursion loop will stop

  2. The element of a program that can be represented recursively

  3. An error causing the recursion loop to stop

  4. A for loop
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Explanation

In recursion, the base case is the condition that terminates the recursive calls. Without it, the function would call itself indefinitely, leading to a stack overflow error.

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