Eli5-What does a “stack overflow” mean?

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Eli5-What does a “stack overflow” mean?

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In ELI5 terms? Get a friend. Say a number. They double it. You double it. Repeat. Eventually you forget what the earlier numbers were. In a stack, all the numbers are important. If you can’t remember them all, you overflowed your ability to remember them. You got a stack overflow.