Aah that's clever. I have one question though:

So if a condition is not met the first time a ternary statement is
called, and there's recurssion on the false side, would it ever go
through the true side again? (i.e. would it just keep going back to
the recursive point, which is the false side in this case?).

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Just solved a Blue Kata but received 2 points. :( Seems like there is a bug or my understanding of kata points is wrong..