public class InfiniteRecursion2		// demonstration of recursion with a faulty base case that leads to infinite recursion 
{									// (StackOverflow or ArithmeticException)
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		System.out.println(infinity(20));	// invoke recursive function with some positive value for x, the value is immaterial
	}
	
	public static int infinity(int x)
	{
		if(x<=0) return 0;					// base case is unreachable if we call infinity with x>0	
		else return x + infinity(x+1);		// because we are incrementing x each time, not decrementing it
	}
}