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When writing the recursive case, you need to remember two things:

What is the base case?
What is the least amount of work you need to do to get closer to the base case?

Since the base case is when number is equal to 0, you need to call countdown() again while also lowering the value of number by 1.

Inside the else block, call countdown() and pass it number - 1 as an argument.

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You should call countdown() within the body of your else statement.

assert.match(String(countdown), /else\s*\{\s*countdown\(/);

You should pass number - 1 as an argument to countdown().

assert.match(String(countdown), /countdown\(\s*number\s*-\s*1\s*\)/);

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html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title>Decimal to Binary Converter</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" />
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>
      Decimal to Binary 

      Converter
    </h1>
    <section class="input-container">
      <label for="number-input">Enter a decimal number:</label>
      <input
        value=""
        type="number"
        name="decimal number input"
        id="number-input"
        class="number-input"
      />
      <button class="convert-btn" id="convert-btn">Convert</button>
    </section>
    <section class="output-container">
      <output id="result" for="number-input"></output>
      <h2>Call stack</h2>
      <div id="animation-container"></div>
    </section>
    <script src="script.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

css

*,
*::before,
*::after {
  box-sizing: border-box;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

:root {
  --light-grey: #f5f6f7;
  --dark-blue: #1b1b32;
  --orange: #f1be32;
}

body {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  align-items: center;
  font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Monaco, Liberation Mono, Lucida Console,
    monospace;
  font-size: 1.125rem;
  color: var(--light-grey);
  background-color: var(--dark-blue);
  padding: 0 4px;
}

h1 {
  font-size: 2.125rem;
  text-align: center;
  margin: 20px 0;
}

h2 {
  font-size: 1.5rem;
  text-align: center;
  margin: 20px 0;
}

.input-container {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  gap: 10px;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
  width: clamp(320px, 50vw, 460px);
  margin: 10px auto;
}

.input-container label {
  white-space: nowrap;
  word-spacing: -6px;
}

.convert-btn {
  font-size: inherit;
  font-family: inherit;
  background-color: var(--orange);
  width: 100%;
  height: 2rem;
  padding: 0 6px;
  border: none;
  border-radius: 2px;
  cursor: pointer;
}

.number-input {
  font-size: inherit;
  padding: 0.3rem;
  width: 100%;
}

.output-container {
  margin-inline: auto;
  width: clamp(320px, 50vw, 460px);
}

#result {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;
  font-size: 2rem;
  text-align: center;
  min-height: 80px;
  margin-block-start: 20px;
  padding: 15px;
  border: 2px solid var(--orange);
  border-radius: 2px;
}

#animation-container {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column-reverse;
  justify-content: end;
  gap: 1rem;
  margin-block-end: 1rem;
  min-height: 40vh;
  border: 2px dashed var(--orange);
  padding: 1rem;
}

.animation-frame {
  font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, avenir next, avenir, segoe ui,
    helvetica neue, helvetica, Cantarell, Ubuntu, roboto, noto, arial,
    sans-serif;
  padding: 15px 10px;
  border: 5px solid var(--orange);
  font-size: 1.2rem;
  text-align: center;
}

@media screen and (min-width: 36em) {
  body {
    font-size: 1rem;
  }

  .input-container {
    flex-direction: row;
    width: unset;
  }

  .number-input {
    width: unset;
  }
}

const numberInput = document.getElementById("number-input");
const convertBtn = document.getElementById("convert-btn");
const result = document.getElementById("result");

const countdown = (number) => {
  console.log(number);

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  if (number === 0) {
    return;
  } else {
  }
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};

const decimalToBinary = (input) => {
  let binary = "";

  if (input === 0) {
    binary = "0";
  }

  while (input > 0) {
    binary = (input % 2) + binary;
    input = Math.floor(input / 2);
  }

  result.innerText = binary;
};

const checkUserInput = () => {
  if (
    !numberInput.value ||
    isNaN(parseInt(numberInput.value)) ||
    parseInt(numberInput.value) < 0
  ) {
    alert("Please provide a decimal number greater than or equal to 0");
    return;
  }

  decimalToBinary(parseInt(numberInput.value));
  numberInput.value = "";
};

convertBtn.addEventListener("click", checkUserInput);

numberInput.addEventListener("keydown", (e) => {
  if (e.key === "Enter") {
    checkUserInput();
  }
});

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