Recursion sucks?

After writing yesterday's post I thought that many people don't like (I mean understand) recursion. Because of this I decided to modify my "algorithm" ;) and make it iterative.

Enjoy!

private static String convertIter(int decimal) {
 StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
 int number = decimal;

 while (number > 0) {
  for (int i = 0; i < NUMBERS.length; i++) {
   if (number >= NUMBERS[i]) {
    sb.append(LETTERS[i]);
    number -= NUMBERS[i];
    break;
   }
  }
 }

 return sb.toString();
}