Baguenaudier
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Baguenaudier (also known as "Chinese Rings") is a puzzle featuring a double loop of string and seven rings in sequence getting shorter. The puzzle is thought to be invented originally in China. Stewart Culin provided that it was invented by Chinese general Hung Ming in the 2nd century AD. The name "Baguenaudier", however, is French, meaning "time-waster".
Édouard Lucas, the inventor of the Tower of Hanoi puzzle, was known to have come up with an elegant solution which used binary and Gray codes, in the same way that his puzzle can be solved.
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- Eric W. Weisstein, Baguenaudier at MathWorld.
- David Darling - encyclopedia
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