Why does does my stack overflow error occur after 518669 specifically?
- by David
I created a java program to count up toward infinity:
class up {
public static void up (int n) {
System.out.println (n) ;
up (n+1) ;
}
public static void main (String[] arg) {
up (1) ;
}
}
i didn't actually expect it to get there but the thing that i noticed that was a bit curious was that it stopped at the same number each time: 518669
what is the significance of this number? (or of this number +1 i suppose).
(also as a bit of an aside question, I've been told that the way i format my code is bad [indentation and such] what am i doing that isn't desirable?)
