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# "Towers of Hanoi" Game

# A recursive solution almost forces itself on the programmer,

# while the iterative solution of the game is hard to find and to grasp.

# "Recursion"

# Recursion is a method of programming or coding a problem,

# in which a function calls itself one or more times in its body.

# Usually, it is returning the return value of this function call.

# If a function definition satisfies the condition of recursion, we call this function a recursive function.

def hanoi(n, source, helper, target):

if n > 0:

# move tower of size n-1 to helper:

hanoi(n-1, source, target, helper)

# move disk from source to target:

if source:

target.append(source.pop())

# move tower of size n-1 from helper to target:

hanoi(n-1, helper, source, target)

if __name__ == "__main__":

height = int(input("Enter the height of the tower: "))

source = [disk for disk in range(1, height+1)]

helper = []

target = []

print("Before calling the recursive function...")

print("Source tower: ", str(source))

print("Target tower: ", str(target))

# call the hanoi function to start recursie execution

hanoi(height, source, helper, target)

print("After recursive calls...")

print("Source tower: ", str(source))

print("Target tower: ", str(target))

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