Tail-Recursive Function Transformation in Python

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Intro 
 In 1986, Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman recorded some videos for their M.I.T. EECS course on the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs . Twenty-seven years later, these videos are still a great resource. But the language featured is the Scheme 1 dialect of Lisp and while I can/do follow along in “edwin”, sometimes it’s nice to play in a (language (with…

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