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A002186 Sprague-Grundy values for the game of Kayles (octal games .77 and .771).
(Formerly M0410 N0156)
3
0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 4, 3, 2, 1, 4, 2, 6, 4, 1, 2, 7, 1, 4, 3, 2, 1, 4, 6, 7, 4, 1, 2, 8, 5, 4, 7, 2, 1, 8, 6, 7, 4, 1, 2, 3, 1, 4, 7, 2, 1, 8, 2, 7, 4, 1, 2, 8, 1, 4, 7, 2, 1, 4, 2, 7, 4, 1, 2, 8, 1, 4, 7, 2, 1, 8, 6, 7, 4, 1, 2, 8, 1, 4, 7, 2, 1, 8, 2, 7, 4, 1, 2, 8, 1, 4, 7, 2, 1, 8, 2, 7, 4, 1, 2, 8, 1, 4, 7, 2, 1 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,3

COMMENTS

Octal games 4.4, 4.41, 4.42, 4.43, 4.6, 4.61, 4.62 and 4.63 have values a(n-1).

"The periodicity was first proved by R. K. Guy in 1949, the sequence necessarily being calculated by hand." [Beasley].

REFERENCES

John D. Beasley, The Mathematics of Games, Dover Publ., Mineola, NY 2006, page 111.

E. R. Berlekamp, J. H. Conway and R. K. Guy, Winning Ways, Academic Press, NY, 2 vols., 1982, see p. 91.

Calkin, Neil J.; James, Kevin; Janoski, Janine E.; Leggett, Sarah; Richards, Bryce; Sitaraman, Nathan; and Thomas, Stephanie M.; Computing strategies for graphical Nim, in Proceedings of the Forty-First Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing. Congr. Numer. 202 (2010), 171-185. (See page 174.)

J. H. Conway, On Numbers and Games, Second Edition. A K Peters, Ltd, 2001, p. 128.

Guy, R. K. and Smith, C. A. B.; The G-values of various games. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 52 (1956), 514-526.

N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

LINKS

Achim Flammenkamp, Octal games

FORMULA

From n=71 on, the sequence is periodic with period 12. The only exceptions are n=0, 3, 6, 9, 11, 15, 18, 21, 22, 28, 34, 39, 57 and 70.

CROSSREFS

Cf. A071074, A071434.

Sequence in context: A125933 A011857 A006021 * A125936 A200942 A161621

Adjacent sequences:  A002183 A002184 A002185 * A002187 A002188 A002189

KEYWORD

nonn,nice

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Francisco Salinas (franciscodesalinas(AT)hotmail.com), Dec 08 2001

Edited by Christian G. Bower (bowerc(AT)usa.net), Oct 22 2002

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