Is it possible to give an explanation of functional programming without using factorial or fibonacci as an example?

@valleyforge do you mean recursion based on the two examples you provided (factorial and Fibonacci)? Functional programming is not just limited to recursive functions and is a declarative programming paradigm:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functi

@sojournTime recursion is a great example of functional programming and those are great examples of recursion so they tend to get used in intros to functional programming

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@valleyforge Mergesort is also an excellent example of recursion.

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