Recursion - digits in reverse order

Question

I need to implement a recursive method printDigits that takes an integer num as a parameter and prints its digits in reverse order, one digit per line.

This is what

Answer 1

   public class reverseIntRec{
        public static void main(String args[]) {
            System.out.println(reverse(91));
        }
        public static int reverse(int x) {
         String strX = String.valueOf(x);
          if (Math.abs(x) < 10)
                return x;
          else 
            return x % 10 * ((int) Math.pow(10, strX.length()-1)) + reverse(x/10);
        }
    }

Here is my answer return as integer. I converted x into string to see how many 0s you should multiply with.

For example: reverse(91) returns 1 * 10 + reverse (9), and that returns 10 + 9 = 19.