"towers of Hanoi" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} towers of Hanoi pl (plural only)
  1. A puzzle in which stacks of disks are moved one at a time from one of three spindles to another so that no disk ever rests on a smaller disk. Wikipedia link: towers of Hanoi Tags: plural, plural-only Related terms: recursion
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