Reading the call stack: fib and the exploding tree

One extra self-call changes everything. Fibonacci makes TWO recursive calls - and the work explodes exponentially. Watch 15 calls bloom out of fib(5), learn to read any stack, and meet the fix.

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Reading the call stack: fib and the exploding tree is part of DSA in Java, visualized

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