Biography of Edouard Lucas (1842-1891) ...

Navigation Panel: Go backward to Who Took The Last Coin Go up to Mathematically Interesting Games Go down to first subsection Discovering the Mathematics Behind the Game Go forward to The Car and the Goats (skipping over subsections) Switch to text-only version (no graphics) Go to University of Toronto Mathematics Network Home Page The Tower of Hanoi The Legend. In an ancient city in India, so ...

How many moves will it take to transfer n disks from the left post to the right post

Navigation Panel: (These buttons explained below) Question Corner and Discussion Area Patterns in the Towers of Hanoi Solution Asked by Alex Doskey on May 7, 1997: I first encountered the Towers of Hanoi puzzle when I was 8 years old. With an eager mind a attacked the puzzle and quickly discovered a pattern to its solution. This recursive solution is the one described in you web page discussion ...

Navigation Panel: Go up to The Tower of Hanoi Go forward to Discovering the Mathematics, Continued Switch to text-only version (no graphics) Go to University of Toronto Mathematics Network Home Page Discovering the Mathematics Behind the Game If you've played the game as well as possible, you should have discovered that the minimum number of turns it takes to win (for 1, 2, 3, and 4 disks, ...

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TOWER OF HANOI Please note that the material on this website is not intended to be exhaustive. This is intended as a summary and supplementary material to the required textbook. Given: 3 pegs labelled A , B, C n disks labelled 1, 2, 3, ..., N where 1 is the smallest disk and N is the largest disk Initially, all n disks are piled in peg A according to size with the smallest on top Objective: To ...