The game of Flipping Coins
Combinatorics
2021-03-01 v1
Abstract
We consider Flipping Coins, a partizan version of the impartial game Turning Turtles, played on lines of coins. We show the values of this game are numbers, and these are found by first applying a reduction, then decomposing the position into an iterated ordinal sum. This is unusual since moves in the middle of the line do not eliminate the rest of the line. Moreover, when is decomposed into lines and , then . This is in contrast to Hackenbush Strings where .
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@article{arxiv.2102.13225,
title = {The game of Flipping Coins},
author = {Anthony Bonato and Melissa A. Huggan and Richard J. Nowakowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.13225},
year = {2021}
}
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19 pages