Towers of Hanoi Introduction ============ We have been asked during this piece of coursework to investigate the Towers of Hanoi. The Towers of Hanoi is a simple game whereby you must move of a pile of 3, 4, 5 or any other number of discs (1, 2, 3, etc) of decreasing radii from 1 of 3 poles to another pole (A, B, C). You are only able to move one disc at a time and cannot place a larger disc on top of a smaller disc. You must also complete this task in the smallest amount of moves
Introduction A French mathematician called Edouard Lucas invented the Tower of Hanoi also known as “The End of The World Puzzle”, in 1883. It is thought that Lucas designed it based on the legend of a Hindu Temple. The priests in the temple were apparently given a tower of 64 gold discs, each smaller in size than the disc beneath. The priests were to move the discs from one of the three poles to another, one by one, without placing a bigger disc on a smaller one, as the weight of the bigger one would
challenge. Now that there is an equation for the number of moves and a recognizable pattern between the odd numbered disks and the even numbered disks, the goals of this internal assessment have been met. In the introduction, the story behind the Tower of Hanoi was explained. The story involved the 64 golden disks and the end of the world. If these disks existed, it would be interesting to see how moves it would take to be completed. When plugged into the function (y=264-1), the total number of moves
My teaching philosophy is largely based on my own learning experiences. Looking back on my childhood and education, it is hard to believe that I currently teach computer classes. I did not grow up in the “age of technology.” In college, I majored in accounting. Computers was a new field and something I found to be very intimidating. Initially, I wanted to learn computers to allow me to excel in the working world. The transition from accounting to computer science was both scary and a challenging
cinematographer and revolutionary. [e-book] Available through: PSLweb.org http://www2.pslweb.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5103 [Accessed: 5 Dec 2013]. Michael Atkinson 2010, He Who Hits First, Hits Twice: The Urgent Cinema of Santiago Alvarez, Tower Publishing Services, LONDON. Livio Jacob 1989, ""Show Us Life": Toward a History and Aesthetics of the Committed Documentary", Griffithiana, , no. 35/36, pp. 175.
Graham Greene is not, basically, a political writer but a writer who happens to be about politics in his later period of his novelistic career. In The Quiet American, he formed a political imagination that is based on both America and American policies involving colonial prestige. This paper conveys an overall representation that he dislikes America because it is a symbol of all that has gone wrong due to materialism, Godlessness and neutrality. Like so many of Greene's novels, The Quiet American
In stead of choosing Petronas Twin Tower, Kinabalu Park or Melaka, tourists nowadays have a new and wonderful destination when coming to Malaysia that is **Legoland Malaysia Resort**. It covers an area of 30 hectares in the sea town nothern of Johor Bahru. Along with five other Legolands that were built in Denmark, Britain, German and America, Malaysia Legoland is the first Legoland in Asia and also the first International Park in Malaysia. To build this great complex, more than 50 lego bricks have
American Prisoners were pilots for the Army and Air Force shot down during the heavy bombing raids ordered by President Johnson in 1964. 1 For nearly 2,000 days, or six plus years many of these Americans imprisoned in Son Tay about 23 miles west of Hanoi in North Vietnam. After several reports to the Pentagon from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the National security Agency (NSA), one of the greatest orchestrated prison rescue attempt was coordinated in
The topic I am writing about is memory consolidation and sleep and how sleep-dependent memory consolidation is effected as we age. First off, memory consolidation is the phenomenon where memory is consolidated while we sleep, which leads to an improved performance following a retention interval of sleep (Ashworth, Hill, Karmiloff‐Smith, & Dimitriou 2014). I wanted to write about this topic because I always wondered why studying right before bed helped me remember things better. The questioned I aim
The Good Neighbor Policy was in response to economic and social issue that were occuring in Central and South American during the 1900’s (What is the?). These issues included civil unrest and economic instability. During the 1900’s, in order to help, US troops were sent to countries such as Nicaragua, Cuba, and Haiti (Mcgruders 483). These countries resented the United States for getting involved with their business. Because the United States got involved in other nation’s affairs in this situation
Fractals and the Cantor Set Fractals are remarkable designs noted for their infinite self-similarity. This means that small parts of the fractal contain all of the information of the entire fractal, no matter how small the viewing window on the fractal is. This contrasts for example, with most functions, which tend to look like straight lines when examined closely. The Cantor Set is an intriguing example of a fractal. The Cantor set is formed by removing the middle third of a line
HOW IMPORTANT ARE MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS IN COGNITIVE THEORIES? How the world around us is represented mentally is the corner stone of cognitive architectures. It facilitates understanding of information received and perceived from our environment. The storage and retrieval of knowledge would be impossible without mental representations. Mental representations are the way in which we create ‘copies’ of the real things around us, which we perceive. A description of a representation is a symbol,
The Impact of France on the World France occupies an exclusive place in the world, and could accept nothing less. It is, its President declares, a beacon for the human race. The nation and its people may be loved or hated, but they can never be ignored. This, after all, is the land which gave the planet Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, Charles de Gaulle and Gérard Depardieu, the Musketeers, Madame Bovary and Cyrano de Bergerac, Brigitte Bardot and Joan of Arc, claret and the cinema, the Cancan