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minus-squarelad@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months ago Hanoi […] practice problems. Like you come to the exam and there’s a 64 piece Tower of Hanoi you need to solve manually to pass the exam
minus-squareJohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoAssuming 1 second per swap, a 64 disk tower of hanoi would take 585 billion years to solve - it has 2^64 -1 swaps.
minus-squarelad@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoAnd that makes It good enough for an exam
Like you come to the exam and there’s a 64 piece Tower of Hanoi you need to solve manually to pass the exam
Assuming 1 second per swap, a 64 disk tower of hanoi would take 585 billion years to solve - it has 2^64 -1 swaps.
And that makes It good enough for an exam