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Counting the Number of Three-Player Partizan Cold Games

  • Alessandro Cincotti
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 4630)

Abstract

We give upper and lower bounds on S 3[n] equal to the number of three-player partizan cold games born by day n. In particular, we give an upper bound of \(O(S_2[n]^3)\) and a lower bound of Ω(S 2[n]) where S 2[n] is the number of surreal numbers born by day n.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Alessandro Cincotti
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  1. 1.Research Unit for Computers and Games, School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, IshikawaJapan

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