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Programming Puzzles: Python Edition
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Programming Puzzles: Python Edition

by Matthew Whiteside
June 2024
Intermediate to advanced
408 pages
7h 17m
English
Packt Publishing
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Task

Define a function tower_of_hanoi that takes four parameters:
Name
Type
Example Input
Description
num_disks
int
4
Number of disks starting on the source peg
source
str
“Source”
A string representing the source peg
aux
str
“Auxiliary”
A string representing the auxiliary peg
target
str
“Target”
A string representing the target peg
When called, the function should solve the Tower of Hanoi problem. The output should be printed to the console in the following format: “Move disk {n} from {peg} to {another_peg}” where n is the size of the disk. For example, the smallest disk will have size 1, the size up will be size 2, etc.
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