The Tower of Hanoi is a mathematical puzzle that consists of three rods and a number of disks of different sizes, which can slide onto any rod. The puzzle starts with the disks in a neat stack in ascending order of size on one rod, the smallest at the top, thus making a conical shape.
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23 Feb, 2023

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The Tower of Hanoi is a mathematical puzzle that consists of three rods and a number of disks of different sizes, which can slide onto any rod. The puzzle starts with the disks in a neat stack in ascending order of size on one rod, the smallest at the top, thus making a conical shape.

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The puzzle has been popularized in recreational mathematics and computer science. It is often used as an example problem for teaching recursive algorithms, as solving the puzzle involves breaking it down into smaller subproblems and applying the same algorithm to each of them.