The iterative solution is described on Wikipedia. Due to "the march of the monoculture", all phrases "Tower of _country_" are becoming more and more difficult to distinguish (cf. Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower ). Some people are happy to have standard problems and standard solutions, but if you are really where you say you are, isn't the focus more on complex systems? Here's an idea . . . The "firefly algorithm" has been criticized as only trivially different from particle swarm optimization [1]. This is not even the worst problem--light emission and absorption are not isotropic phenomena relative to insect biology. So why doesn't this "firefly algorithm" at least account for the vector nature of the insect body? --Brad [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_algorithm On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 3:31 PM Cris Moore <moore@santafe.edu> wrote:
p.s. The Santa Fe Institute has a copy of the French recreational mathematics magazine where Edouard Lucas proposed the Towers of Hanoi puzzle (he also, confusingly, mentions Benares). I like to point out that if a Vietnamese mathematician had invented the puzzle, it would presumably be called the Towers of Eiffel.