ActionScript 2.0 :: How To Change Recursion Into Loop

I'm making something that requires a recursion of over 256 times, I know you can use things like "for" to turn it into a loop. Here is an example:

ActionScript Code:
var number = 200
var i = 0
var match = false
button.onPress = function() {
Check()
} function Check() {
[Code] .....

This as you may have gathered is utterly pointless, but it's a good example. This basically cycles through all whole integers until it finds a match with the number set as the "number" variable when the button is pressed, then it displays "true" in the dynamic text box "box" when it's found a match. So basically it checks if the number is 1, if not it restarts the function and checks with 2 (i++) and so on until it finds the number. All of this works fine until you try and work out a number of 256 or more, then the message comes up about the "it's probably a loop" so on.