Search: id:A060586 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A060586 %S A060586 0,1,1,3,3,2,3,2,3,7,6,7,6,7,7,5,5,4,7,7,6,5,4,5,6,7,7,15,15,14,13,12, %T A060586 13,14,15,15,12,13,13,15,15,14,15,14,15,11,10,11,10,11,11,9,9,8,15,14, %U A060586 15,14,15,15,13,13,12,11,11,10,9,8,9,10,11,11,12,13,13,15,15,14,15,14 %N A060586 Minimum number of moves required to reach position n starting from 0 in Tower of Hanoi (with three pegs: 0,1,2), where with position n written in base 3, xyz means smallest disk is on peg z, second smallest is on peg y, third smallest on peg x, etc. and leading zeros indicate largest disks are all on peg 0. %F A060586 a(n) =A060585(A060583(n)). %e A060586 a(46)=10 since 46 written in base 3 is 1201 (i.e. with the smallest and fourth smallest disks on the first peg, the third smallest disk on the second peg and the second smallest and any other disks on the zeroth peg) and the optimal moves starting from position 0 go through positions 2, 12, 11, 211, 210, 220, 222, 1222, 1220, 1210 taking ten moves. %Y A060586 k appears A001316(k) times in the sequence. Cf. A001511, A055661, A055662. %Y A060586 Sequence in context: A120992 A129979 A075017 this_sequence A076662 A164359 A079063 %Y A060586 Adjacent sequences: A060583 A060584 A060585 this_sequence A060587 A060588 A060589 %K A060586 base,nice,nonn %O A060586 0,4 %A A060586 Henry Bottomley (se16(AT)btinternet.com), Apr 04 2001 Search completed in 0.001 seconds