stackoverflowerror in java code example

Example 1: java.lang.StackOverflowError

public class Vehicle {
    public void accelerate(float acceleration, float maxVelocity) {
        // set the acceleration
    }
}

public class SpaceShip extends Vehicle {
    @Override
    public void accelerate(float acceleration, float maxVelocity) {
        // update the flux capacitor and call super.accelerate
        // oops meant to call super.accelerate(acceleration, maxVelocity);
        // but accidentally wrote this instead. A StackOverflow is in our future.
        this.accelerate(acceleration, maxVelocity); 
    }
}

Example 2: java stackoverflowerror

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Number: 2
Number: 3
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Number: 6262
Number: 6263
Number: 6264
Number: 6265
Number: 6266
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StackOverflowError
        at java.io.PrintStream.write(PrintStream.java:480)
        at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder.writeBytes(StreamEncoder.java:221)
        at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder.implFlushBuffer(StreamEncoder.java:291)
        at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder.flushBuffer(StreamEncoder.java:104)
        at java.io.OutputStreamWriter.flushBuffer(OutputStreamWriter.java:185)
        at java.io.PrintStream.write(PrintStream.java:527)
        at java.io.PrintStream.print(PrintStream.java:669)
        at java.io.PrintStream.println(PrintStream.java:806)
        at StackOverflowErrorExample.recursivePrint(StackOverflowErrorExample.java:4)
        at StackOverflowErrorExample.recursivePrint(StackOverflowErrorExample.java:9)
        at StackOverflowErrorExample.recursivePrint(StackOverflowErrorExample.java:9)
        at StackOverflowErrorExample.recursivePrint(StackOverflowErrorExample.java:9)
        ...