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Let $t = 2^{2^k}$, and consider the field $[t]$ of nimbers below $t$. For $k \leq 6$ one can check that $t - 1$ (in the usual arithmetic sense) is a multiplicative generator of $[t] \backslash \{0\}$. ...

Alice and Bob are playing a game as follows: Initially There're two subgroups $A,B$ of Sym(n) known to both Alice and Bob There're $n$ slots $S_1, \cdots, S_n$ and $n$ boxes $B_1, \cdots, B_n$. ...

The famous chip firing game (which is closely related to sandpile models) goes like this: Place chips at the vertices of a graph. REPEATEDLY: If a vertex $v$ of degree $d_{v}$ has at least $d_{v}...