A RESTRICTION OF EUCLID

作者:Cairns Grant*; Nhan Bao Ho
来源:Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, 2012, 86(3): 506-509.
DOI:10.1017/S0004972712000391

摘要

Euclid is a well-known two-player impartial combinatorial game. A position in Euclid is a pair of positive integers and the players move alternately by subtracting a positive integer multiple of one of the integers from the other integer without making the result negative. The player who makes the last move wins. There is a variation of Euclid due to Grossman in which the game stops when the two entries are equal. We examine a further variation which we called M-Euclid where the game stops when one of the entries is a positive integer multiple of the other. We solve the Sprague-Grundy function for M-Euclid and compare the Sprague-Grundy functions of the three games.

  • 出版日期2012-12

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