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Re: Would-be hacker queries.
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 11 May 1999 20:38:46 GMT
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Kekoa Proudfoot wrote:
> Good examples of where recursion is actually useful are:
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> - ray tracing
> - solving Towers of Hanoi
You know, a 'bot that actually solves a Towers of Hanoi puzzle with real plates
and whatnot would be a pretty cool challenge on hardware like the RCX.
(ponder, ponder, ponder)...
I don't think it's possible with anything less than LegOS or pbForth though.
> > Mark
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| In article <37389556.ACC65587@lynx.bc.ca>, Mark Tarrabain <markt@lynx.bc.ca> writes (...) I saw one of the early pumas playing hanoi at an exhibition. It must be arout 30 years ago - it's been done before. (26 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) The factorial is useful for probability. The factorial is a simple, understandable example of recursion, useful to teach the concept; it is lacking only in that it is not very efficient. But when you are first learning, I think concepts are (...) (26 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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