I once had a professor ask to solve the tower of hanoi using only 2 pegs.
9 0 ReplyHow did that turn out?
2 0 ReplyIt was a trick question.
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Oh god Hanoi's towers... Incredible that I programmed it in BASIC on my ZX81 in the 80s, and now at 50+yo I would have no clue how to program it lol
9 0 ReplyAny other recursive algorithm was no problem for me, but I couldn't wrap my head around this game.
4 0 ReplyAnd then someone starts talking about dining philosophers...
4 1 ReplyI don't get this meme. Can anyone explain what this meme means?
3 0 ReplyThis is called Tower of Hanoi problem, usually introduced as main task when learning about recursion in programming
6 0 ReplyThe meme basically shows how a non-programmer sees the Towers of Hanoi game as a fun little puzzle, while a programmer sees it as a traumatizing experience due to the recursive nature of the algorithm behind it
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Hey I'm Vietnamese, nothing to scared of tower of Hanoi ok? Come vitsit us, it would be nice experience for u I'm sure
2 0 ReplyM-x hanoi
2 0 ReplyGood ol' emacs, relevant xkcd (although I don't think there's anyone that hasn't seen it).
2 0 ReplySure, but can you shut it off?
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