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From: Rune
Date: 3 Nov 2002 11:45:57
Message: <3dc552c5$1@news.povray.org>

> Really??? I was told that it was a puzzle that was
> done by some monks... when they would transfer all
> the tower to the other peg, the end of the world
> would come...

Yeah, I heard that version too.

> of course it was with many rings, so even if they
> tried to move each peg every second, they would
> finish in a quadrillion putrillion gazillion years :)

I think it was 64 discs, so that's 2^64-1 moves, which would be about
584558050400 years if a disc is moved every second. :)

> Now, about your animation, I liked it very much!

Thank you. :)

Rune
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