👉 The term "autodecremented" is used in programming languages to describe a function that performs an operation repeatedly until it reaches its final value. This repetition allows for the efficient use of memory resources and can be useful when dealing with long-running tasks or when you want to keep track of the state of the program at each iteration. For example, consider a function that calculates the factorial of a number n: ```python def factorial(n): if n == 0: return 1