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Python Program for Tower of Hanoi

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Tower of Hanoi is a mathematical puzzle where we have three rods and n disks. The objective of the puzzle is to move the entire stack to another rod, obeying the following simple rules: 
1) Only one disk can be moved at a time. 
2) Each move consists of taking the upper disk from one of the stacks and placing it on top of another stack i.e. a disk can only be moved if it is the uppermost disk on a stack. 
3) No disk may be placed on top of a smaller disk.
Note: Transferring the top n-1 disks from source rod to Auxiliary rod can again be thought of as a fresh problem and can be solved in the same manner.
 

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# Recursive Python function to solve the tower of hanoi
 
def TowerOfHanoi(n , source, destination, auxiliary):
    if n==1:
        print ("Move disk 1 from source",source,"to destination",destination)
        return
    TowerOfHanoi(n-1, source, auxiliary, destination)
    print ("Move disk",n,"from source",source,"to destination",destination)
    TowerOfHanoi(n-1, auxiliary, destination, source)
         
# Driver code
n = 4
TowerOfHanoi(n,'A','B','C')
# A, C, B are the name of rods
 
# Contributed By Dilip Jain


Output

Move disk 1 from source A to destination C
Move disk 2 from source A to destination B
Move disk 1 from source C to destination B
Move disk 3 from source A to destination C
Move disk 1 from source B to destination A
Move disk 2 from source B to destination C
Move disk 1 from source A to destination C
Move disk 4 from source A to destination B
Move disk 1 from source C to destination B
Move disk 2 from source C to destination A
Move disk 1 from source B to destination A
Move disk 3 from source C to destination B
Move disk 1 from source A to destination C
Move disk 2 from source A to destination B
Move disk 1 from source C to destination B

Time Complexity: O(2n)

Auxiliary Space: O(n)

Please refer complete article on Program for Tower of Hanoi for more details!
 


Last Updated : 16 Jun, 2022
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