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  • Formalizing Theory of Impartial Games: Sprague-Grundy Theorem

    Timothy Mou - Fri 17 March 2023 - game-theory

    This is a continuation of this previous post covering a formalization of impartial games. In this post, I will define the game of Nim, and use it to state and prove the Sprague-Grundy theorem.

    Defining Nim

    I chose to define Nim in terms of the BinNat.N type rather than …