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Authors:
Walter Savitch ,julia Lobur
Chapter:
Recursion
Exercise:
Programming Projects
Question:8 | ISBN:9780321531346 | Edition: 7

Question

Towers of Hanoi: There is a story about Buddhist monks who are playing

this puzzle with 64 stone disks. The story claims that when the monks finish moving the disks from one post to a second via the third post, time

will end.

A stack of n disks of decreasing size is placed on one of three posts. The

task is to move the disks one at a time from the first post to the second. To do this, any disk can be moved from any post to any other post, subject to the rule that you can never place a larger disk over a smaller disk. The (spare) third post is provided to make the solution possible. Your task is to write a recursive function that describes instructions for a solution to this problem. We don’t have graphics available, so you should output a sequence of instructions that will solve the problem.

Hint: If you could move up n-1 of the disks from the first post to the third

post using the second post as a spare, the last disk could be moved from

the first post to the second post. Then by using the same technique

(whatever that may be) you can move the n-1 disks from the third post to

the second post, using the first disk as a spare. There! You have the puzzle solved. You only have to decide what the nonrecursive case is, what the recursive case is, and when to output instructions to move the disks.

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