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Old 28-07-2005, 22:11   #15
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Re: Solitaire?

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Originally Posted by Graham
I always knew that as "Towers of Babel" but it's the same game. It's actually very simple once you grasp the principle.

As a matter of interest, I once worked out that the minimum number of moves to solve it was (2^n) - 1 where n is the number of disks.
Which at one move per second, 24 hours per day and 365 days per year gives, oh, quite a long time.
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