An illustration of Nim game states (IMAGE)
Caption
An illustration of Nim game states. The left panel shows an initial board configuration of five heaps: [n1, n2, n3, n4, n5] = [1, 3, 5, 7, 9]. The middle panel depicts an intermediate board state during gameplay: [v1, v2, v3, v4, v5] = [1, 2, 4, 4, 3], resulting from players removing counters. The right panel represents the terminal state where all counters are cleared, signifying a win for the player who made the last move.
Credit
Image by Dr Bei Zhou, Research Associate at Imperial College, London, and Dr Søren Riis Reader in Computer Science Queen Mary University of London.
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