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A strange function. Consider McCarthy’s 91 function:public static int mcCarthy(int n){   i...

A strange function. Consider McCarthy’s 91 function:

public static int mcCarthy(int n){   if (n > 100) return n − 10;   return mcCarthy(mcCarthy(n+11));}

Determine the value of mcCarthy (50) without using a computer. Give the number of recursive calls used by mcCarthy () to compute this result. Prove that the base case is reached for all positive integers n or find a value of n for which this function goes into an infinite recursive loop.

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