Count Singly Linked List Recursion

package com.thealgorithms.datastructures.lists;

public class CountSinglyLinkedListRecursion extends SinglyLinkedList {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        CountSinglyLinkedListRecursion list = new CountSinglyLinkedListRecursion();
        for (int i = 1; i <= 5; ++i) {
            list.insert(i);
        }
        assert list.count() == 5;
    }

    /**
     * Calculate the count of the list manually using recursion.
     *
     * @param head head of the list.
     * @return count of the list.
     */
    private int countRecursion(Node head) {
        return head == null ? 0 : 1 + countRecursion(head.next);
    }

    /**
     * Returns the count of the list.
     */
    @Override
    public int count() {
        return countRecursion(getHead());
    }
}
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