108 Ways To Do The Towers of Hanoi

Posted by Hemos on Sunday December 7, 2003 @11:48PM from the and-50-ways-to-leave-your-jacob's-ladder dept.

hlarwood74 writes "While it is common to program in a few different languages, somebody has written "towers of hanoi" in 108 different ways, most of them in different programming languages. It's not just the number of languages though ... there are many neat implementations and in some cases he's come up with some strange ways of solving hanoi such as this: "you ping the hanoi machine with the number of disks encoded in the type of service field, and you get response packets whose sequence numbers represent the disk moves need to solve the puzzle". I wanted to ask "why" but the title of the page (hanoimania) explains a few things :)"

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Re: your sig by dillon_rinker · 2003-12-08 03:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic

A musician without the RIAA, is like a fish without a bicycle.

Try this...A musician without the RIAA is like a fish without a hook.

The RIAA is actually harmful. The original quote suggested simply that women didn't need men. (Also that women were slimy scaly smelly creatures and men were carefully engineered tools of great craftsmanship, but I digress...)