SOLUTION: In the puzzle called the Tower of Hanoi, the object is to use a series of moves to take the rings from peg and stack them in order on another peg. A move consists of moving exactly

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Question 18937: In the puzzle called the Tower of Hanoi, the object is to use a series of moves to take the rings from peg and stack them in order on another peg. A move consists of moving exactly one ring,and no ring may be placed on top of a smaller ring.the minimun numbers of moves required to move n rings is 1 for 1 ring, 3 for 2 rings, 7 for 3 rings, 15 for 4 rings, and 31 for 5 rings.Find a formula for the sequence.What is the minimun number of moves required to move 6 rings
Answer by venugopalramana(3286) About Me  (Show Source):
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first let me show how to find the answer for the next case (6 rings)if we know the answer for the previous case (5 rings)
answer for 5 rings =31...ok ...now let us find the answer for 6 rings .
to start with assume the additional new ring (6th.in this case and the biggest) is fixed to the bottom.so we have to move only 5 smaller rings. let us say we move t to the intermediate stand(it should not matter to which stand we move them as long as we use 3 stands only)which requires 31 moves.now having finished this let us remove the new sixth ring which is freed now and put it on the required final stand.this requires only 1 move.now let us imagine it as fixed and being biggest it can remain there at the bottom without any problem.
now let us transfer the 5 smaller rings to this stand which requires 31 moves again.so total number of moves required to move 6 rigs=31 +1 +31=63 moves..if we put it in a formula with the notation that we need M(5) moves to move 5 rings and M(6)moves to move 6 rings... the formula we got is
M(6)=M(5)+1+M(5)=2M(5)+1=2*31+1=63....you can check the correctness of this
farmula with the other answers you got .