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Weakest calculator/pocket computer that can do Tower of Hanoi?
08-13-2018, 03:58 PM
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RE: Weakest calculator/pocket computer that can do Tower of Hanoi?
(08-12-2018 06:07 PM)Thomas Okken Wrote:  As far as I'm aware, that behavior is a bug in the HP-25 (and 25C), not found in other HP models. See http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-9566.html

Thanks for the link. That was an interesting read.
I was happily watching the blinkenlichten while the HP-25 emulator was calculating.

So I tried to maximise the duration by using \(2^{33}=8,589,934,592\) but was slightly disappointed by the result:
Only disk 5?
Whereas I've expected 34.

Turned out the given result was \(8,589,934,605\) which is off by \(13\).
So I've entered the correct value manually.

Those of you who wonder how an odd number could lead to disk 5 may notice that all the values are rounded to 10 digits.

So that's a limitation of the program: \(0<n\leqslant10^{9}\).
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