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That Nim Flashbacks (sh.itjust.works)

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[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 12 points 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

[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 months ago

Assuming 1 second per swap, a 64 disk tower of hanoi would take 585 billion years to solve - it has 2^64 -1 swaps.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

And that makes It good enough for an exam

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

Calm down, satan

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