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by GeorgeRichard
1637 days ago
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At the 1940 New York World's Fair Westinghouse displayed a machine, the Nimatron, that played Nim. From May 11, 1940, to October 27, 1940, only a few people were able to beat the machine in that six-week period; if they did, they were presented with a coin that said Nim Champ. It was also one of the first-ever electronic computerized games.
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The mathematical analysis of Nim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim#Mathematical_theory) is easier than even that of tic-tac-toe (where you more or less have to write out the full game tree to analyse the game. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe#Strategy), making it easier to program.