towers of Hanoi

Noun

plural plural-only

A puzzle in which stacks of disks are moved one at a time from one of three spindles to another so that no disk ever rests on a smaller disk.

Japanese Meaning

ハノイの塔：3本の支柱間で、サイズの異なる円盤を一枚ずつ、常に大きい円盤の上に小さい円盤が乗らないように移動させるパズル

In the programming class, we used the towers of Hanoi to explain recursion and algorithmic efficiency.

プログラミングの授業で、再帰とアルゴリズムの効率を説明するためにハノイの塔のパズルを使いました。

Sense（1）

A puzzle in which stacks of disks are moved one at a time from one of three spindles to another so that no disk ever rests on a smaller disk.