Recursion

[fair ruin]

Struggling a little with recursion. I have this

public static void mystery(int n) {
      if (n > 0){
         mystery(n-1);
         System.out.print(n * 4);
         mystery(n-1);
      } 
   }

   public static void main(String[] args) {
      MysteryClass.mystery(3);
   } 
}```


And I am trying to understand exactly how it executes. But I am not getting it quite right. Would love for a good explanation of what it does exactly and what line executes when etc

[slender wolf]

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[slender wolf]

Please format your code to make it more readable.
For java, it should look like this:
```​​​`​java
public void foo() {

}
​​​`​```

[fair ruin]

I understand the basics of what the method should do, just not what order it is doing it recursively,