Consider the Following Recursive Sum Method

question 31

True/False

Consider the following recursive sum method:
public int sum(int x)
{
if (x == 0) return 0;
else return sum(x - 1) + 1;
}
If the base case is replaced with if (x == 1) return 1; the method will still compute the same thing.

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