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BJP3 Self-Check 12.5: mystery3

Language/Type: Java recursion recursive tracing
Author: Whitaker Brand (on 2013/04/01)

For each call to the following method, indicate what console output is produced:

public void mystery3(int n) {
    if (n <= 0) {
        System.out.print("*");
    } else if (n % 2 == 0) {
        System.out.print("(");
        mystery3(n - 1);
        System.out.print(")");
    } else {
        System.out.print("[");
        mystery3(n - 1);
        System.out.print("]");
    }
}
mystery3(0);
mystery3(1);
mystery3(2);
mystery3(4);
mystery3(5);

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