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recursionMystery1

Language/Type: JavaScript recursion mystery
Author: Melissa Hovik (on 2016/09/25)

For each call to the following function, indicate what value is returned:

function mystery1(n) {
    if (n < 0) {
        return -mystery1(-n);
    } else if (n > 100) {
        return n;
    } else {
        return mystery1(n * 2);
    }   
}
mystery1(144);
mystery1(90);
mystery1(49);
mystery1(40);
mystery1(-10);

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