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Thread: Recursion Stackoverflow Error help!

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    Default Recursion Stackoverflow Error help!

    public class Project02
    {
    	private double areaTotal;
    	public Project02(double Total)
    	{
    		areaTotal = Total;
    	}
    		public static double TotalArea(double areaTotal)
    		{		
    			double []x = {7.5774, 6.4226, 4.3453, 3.4226, 4.5724, 6.6547};
    			double []y = {4.6340, 6.3660, 6.2321, 4.3660, 2.6340, 2.7679};
     
    			double a1 = (x[0] * y[1] + x[1] * y[2] + x[2] * y[0] - y[0] * x[1] - y[1] * x[2] - y[2] * x[0])/2;
    			double a2 = (x[0] * y[2] + x[2] * y[3] + x[3] * y[0] - y[0] * x[2] - y[2] * x[3] - y[3] * x[0])/2;
    			double a3 = (x[0] * y[3] + x[3] * y[4] + x[4] * y[0] - y[0] * x[3] - y[3] * x[4] - y[4] * x[0])/2;
    			double a4 = (x[0] * y[4] + x[4] * y[5] + x[5] * y[0] - y[0] * x[4] - y[4] * x[5] - y[5] * x[0])/2;
     
    			double []a = {a1, a2, a3, a4};
     
    			double result;
    			if(areaTotal == 0 && areaTotal > 3)
    				{
    				result = 0;
    				System.out.println("Done");
    				}
    			else
    				{
    				result = a[(int)areaTotal] + TotalArea(a[(int)areaTotal - 1]);
    				System.out.println(result);
    				}
    				return result;
    	}
    }

    DRIVER
    import java.util.Scanner;
     
    public class Project02Driver
    {
    	public static void main(String []args)
    	{
    		int areaTotal;
    		Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
    		areaTotal = scan.nextInt();
    		System.out.println(Project02.TotalArea(areaTotal));
    	}
    }

    I run this program using the driver class. However, every time I input a number for areaTotal I get a stackoverflow error. My end goal in this program is to be able to use recursion to successfully print the total in array a using my driver program.


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    Default Re: Recursion Stackoverflow Error help!

    Not sure if it's the problem, but i found something suspicious. Look at the following statement. What are you trying to achieve here?
    		if(areaTotal == 0 && areaTotal > 3)
    When would this return true and when would this return false?

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