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Grundy's Game


A special case of nim played by the following rules. Given a heap of size n, two players alternately select a heap and divide it into two unequal heaps. A player loses when he cannot make a legal move because all heaps have size 1 or 2. Flammenkamp gives a table of the extremal nim-values for this game. The first few values of Grundy's game are 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 1, 0, 2, ... (OEIS A002188).


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Nim-Value

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References

Flammenkamp, A. "Sprague-Grundy Values of Grundy's Game." http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/~achim/grundy.html.Sloane, N. J. A. Sequence A002188/M0044 in "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences."

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Grundy's Game." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/GrundysGame.html

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