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Algorithms course PTSD (lemmy.zip)
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[–] 42 points 5 months ago (11 children)

The Tower of Hanoi is just a game for children?

I don't think most people would manage the optimal solution first go (1023 moves for a 10-piece game).

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Once you have it figured out, just mechanically doing it all correctly for 1023 steps is also annoying.

    I did it up to the 511 moves for the 9-pice game on Android once, and according to the stats page that took me 6 min 18 seconds. The 10-piece version does not have a time, so I think I gave up :-)

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Most people? 100% not. Me who has probably autism and has internalised the algorithm, I can.

    I love and hate my brain.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I thought I was clever, it took me 300 moves with only 8 disks.

    Literally just easier to pick up the entire pile and move it over, or rotate the entire game and say Tower #1 is Tower #3 now.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    The thing is... not doing it at all, is better than doing those 300 moves. What made you do this? Also a bit spicy?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I was sliding it back and forth as fast as I could, because I didn't understand the puzzle at first, but then I saw there's an sorting optimization puzzle and thought that I was clever only to find out it's tedium.

    Halfway through (or so I thought at move 80), I was just curious to see how ridiculously long the puzzle could be, shifting pieces back and forth

    So the answer was: I thought the puzzle was easy, and I was humbled, and stubborn.

    I solved it and wasted time, and used that time to warn others to not bother with the puzzle

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