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UKMT: The Tower of Hanoi Maths Problem

UKMT volunteer Fraser Heywood kindly shared this video of his favourite mathematical puzzle with us. The Tower of Hanoi is a mathematical puzzle and a recursive algorithm, where the objective is to move an entire stack of disks from the source position to another position.

The three rules are:

- Only one disk can be moved at a time.

- A disk can only be moved if it is the uppermost disk on a stack.

- No larger disk may be placed on top of a smaller disk.

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