Tower of Hanoi with Adjacency Requirement: Suppose that in addition to the requirement that they never move a larger disk on top of a smaller one, the priests who move the disks of the Tower of Hanoi are also allowed only to move disks one by one from one pole to an adjacent pole. Assume poles A and C are at the two ends of the row and pole B is in the middle. Let

a _n = [The minimum number of moves needed to transfer a tower of n disks from pole A to pole C]

a. Find al, a2, and a3.

b. Find a4.

c. Find a recurrence relation for a1, a2, a3,...

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By the definition of a n in the data a n The minimum number of moves needed to transfer a tower of n disks from pole A to pole C a a 1 The minimum num... View the full answer