// Author : Apostolos Syropoulos // Program : Recursive Towers of hanoi // Date : November 16, 1997 // import java.io.*; public class hanoiA { static int moves=0; //number of moves so far static int getInt() { String line; BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); try { line = in.readLine(); int i = Integer.valueOf(line).intValue(); return i; } catch (Exception e) { System.err.println("***Error: Input is not a number.\n" + "Input assumed to be the number 1"); return 1; } } static void hanoi(int height, char fromPole, char toPole, char withPole) { if (height >= 1) { hanoi(height-1, fromPole, withPole, toPole); moveDisk(fromPole, toPole); hanoi(height-1, withPole, toPole, fromPole); } } static void moveDisk(char fromPole, char toPole) { moves++; System.out.print(fromPole); System.out.print(toPole); System.out.print(((moves % 20)==0) ? '\n' : ' '); } public static void main(String[] args) { long time1, time2; //for benchmarking int TowerHeight; char FromPole='A', ToPole='B', WithPole='C'; System.out.println("Enter Tower height..."); System.out.print("?"); TowerHeight = getInt(); time1 = System.currentTimeMillis(); hanoi(TowerHeight, FromPole, ToPole, WithPole); time2 = System.currentTimeMillis(); System.out.println(); System.out.print(time2-time1); //print execution time in msec System.out.println(" msec execution time"); } }