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This lecture covers the concept of tail recursion, where a function calls itself as its last action, allowing the function's stack frame to be reused, resulting in iterative processes. It explains how tail-recursive functions are optimized in Scala, emphasizing the use of @tailrec annotation to ensure tail recursion. Examples of tail recursion implementation, such as designing a tail-recursive version of factorial, are also provided.