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A101608 Solution to Tower of Hanoi puzzle encoded in pairs with the moves (1,2),(2,3),(3,1),(2,1),(3,2),(1,3). The disks are moved from peg 1 to 2. For a tower of k disks use the first 2^k-1 number pairs. +0
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1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 3, 2, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 3, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 3, 1, 3, 2, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 3, 2, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 3, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 3, 2, 1, 3, 1, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 3 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,2

FORMULA

Recurrence: a(4n+1) = (n mod 3) + 1, a(4n+2) = (n+1 mod 3) + 1, a(4n+3) = f(a(2n+1)), a(4n+4) = f(a(2n+2)), where f(1)=1, f(2)=3, f(3)=2.

EXAMPLE

The solution to the 3-disk puzzle is (1,2),(1,3),(2,3),(1,2),(3,1),(3,2),(1,2), therefore a(1) through a(7) are the same numbers in sequence.

CROSSREFS

Cf. A101607.

Sequence in context: A054710 A048233 A005679 this_sequence A102853 A107337 A066376

Adjacent sequences: A101605 A101606 A101607 this_sequence A101609 A101610 A101611

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

Ralf Stephan, Dec 09 2004

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