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October 03, 2002
Computer Science on "Survivor"

OK, so I watch Survivor faithfully every week, and I've always thought it was very well produced - Mark Burnett is a TV genius.

But this week the immunity challenge was what turned out to be a classic problem in computer science: Tower of Hanoi. A whole generation of computer science students learned about recursion solving this puzzle, and a great illustration of this can be found here.

I guess that CS degree is paying off after all :-)

Posted by Steve at October 03, 2002 09:12 PM | TrackBack
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God I hate that show.
Thanks for giving me a link to a annoying puzzle that I've become addicted to... must beat 18 moves, must beat 18 moves. :P

Posted by: Lynne on October 8, 2002 01:45 PM

Steve, man, I'm starting to loose respect for you, watching survivor... ;) I hate those shows.

Posted by: badmagicnumber on October 19, 2002 04:00 PM
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