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Recursion and Dynamic ProgrammingDSA

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• base casethe stopping condition
• dynamic programmingrecursion + remembering solved subproblems
• optimal substructureoptimum built from sub-optima
• overlapping subproblemsthe same call recurs (the waste DP removes)
• recurrencehow a state depends on smaller states
• recursiona function calling itself on a smaller input
• recursion treethe tree of calls
• rolling arraykeep only the recent rows to cut space
• statethe parameters identifying a subproblem
• tabulationbottom-up table fill
• time#states × work/state
• ViterbiDP over sequences (ML/bio)