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Teaching Mathematics and its Applications Advance Access published online on September 4, 2007
Teaching Mathematics and its Applications, doi:10.1093/teamat/hrm015
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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The Towers of Hanoi

George C. Morris *

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
George C. Morris, E-mail: gmorris{at}mcglashan.school.nz


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This article presents an investigation carried out with a group of able mathematics students who were studying at a level 1 year in advance of their peers. The purpose was to investigate the extension of usual three peg Towers of Hanoi to four pegs and attempt to find a rule that could be used to predict the minimum number of moves required to complete the puzzle.


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