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Towers of Hanoi Investigation  

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Introduction Our course work is called the towers of Hanoi. We were asked to have x number of discs and move them to a different place in the least number of moves possible. There are two other places you can move them to. This is what it looks like with 4 discs. You have to move all of the discs to either B or C, they have to be in the same order. While moving the discs you can not put a bigger disc on top of a smaller one. We are to try with different numbers of discs and see if you can find a rule or a pattern Number of discs and its moves 1 Disc 1. 1-B 2 Discs 2. 1-B 3. 2-C 4. 1-C 3 Discs 1. 1-B 2. 2-C 3. 1-C 4. 3-B 5. 1-A 6. 2-B 7. 1-B 4 Discs 1. 1-B 2. 2-C 3. 1-C 4. 3-B 5. 1-A 6. 2-B 7. 1-B 8. 4-C 9. 1-C 10. 2-A 11. 1-A 12. 3-C 13. 1-B 14. 2-C 15. 1-C 5 Discs 1. 1-B 2. 2-C 3. 1-C 4. 3-B 5. 1-A 6....

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