This is a Python Program to find the sum of elements in a list recursively.
The program takes a list and finds the sum of elements in a list recursively.
1. Define a recursive function which takes an array and the size of the array as arguments.
2. Declare an empty list and initialize it to an empty list.
3. Consider a for loop to accept values for the list.
4. Take the number of elements in the list and store it in a variable.
5. Accept the values into the list using another for loop and insert into the list.
6. Pass the list and the size of the list as arguments to the recursive function.
7. If the size of the list is zero, return 0.
8. Otherwise return the sum of the last element of the list along with the recursive function call (with the size reduced by 1).
9. The returned value is stored in a variable and the final sum is printed.
9. Exit.
Here is source code of the Python Program to find the sum of elements in a list recursively. The program output is also shown below.
def sum_arr(arr,size): if (size == 0): return 0 else: return arr[size-1] + sum_arr(arr,size-1) n=int(input("Enter the number of elements for list:")) a=[] for i in range(0,n): element=int(input("Enter element:")) a.append(element) print("The list is:") print(a) print("Sum of items in list:") b=sum_arr(a,n) print(b)
1. User must enter the number of elements in the list and store it in a variable.
2. User must enter the values to the same number of elements into the list.
3. The append function obtains each element from the user and adds the same to the end of the list as many times as the number of elements taken.
4. The list and the size of the list are passed as arguments to a recursive function.
5. If the size of the function reduces to 0, 0 is returned.
6. Otherwise the sum of the last element of the list along with the recursive function call (with the size reduced by 1) is returned.
7. The returned values are stored in a list and the sum of the elements in the list is printed.
Case 1: Enter the number of elements for list:3 Enter element:3 Enter element:56 Enter element:7 The list is: [3, 56, 7] Sum of items in list: 66 Case 2: Enter the number of elements for list:5 Enter element:23 Enter element:45 Enter element:62 Enter element:10 Enter element:56 The list is: [23, 45, 62, 10, 56] Sum of items in list: 196
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