Multivision: An Intractable Impartial Game With a Linear Winning Strategy
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چکیده
Multivision is played by two players who move alternately on a finite number of piles of finitely many tokens. A move consists of selecting a nonempty pile and changing the number of tokens in it. If the change is just any reduction in the number of tokens, we have the well-known game of Nim [1], [2]. In the present case, however, it is also permissible, normally, to increase the size of a pile by an arbitrarily large factor.
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