General Strategy
- Objective: prove that a procedure has property P for any
non-negative argument n
- Base Case: Show that the procedure has property P for
argument 0.
- Induction Hypothesis (IH): Assume that the procedure has property
P for positive argument n=k.
- Inductive Step: Based on the IH, show that the procedure
has property P for argument n=k+1.
Here is a short, instructive video
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