This smells pretty much like homework, but I'll give you a general idea anyway.

Recursion always involves two cases - a rather simple base case, and the recursive case.

In the base case you decide if the problem is solved. So, what really simple case can you think of where the problem is solved?

The to the recursion case: In your example the problem has a solution if the problem ((21 - 5), (-6, 8, 10, 12, 3, 10)) or the problem ((21 - (-6)), (5, 8, 10, 12, 3, 10)) or the problem ((21-8), (5, -6, 10, 12, 3, 10)) ... has a solution.

Now try to express that in perl ;-)

In reply to Re: Recursion problem by moritz
in thread Recursion problem by someone202

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