Talk:Fibonacci nim

Fibonacci nim has been listed as one of the Mathematics good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: February 23, 2022. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Fibonacci nim appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 March 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the first player can win a game of Fibonacci nim unless it starts with a Fibonacci number of coins?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2022/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Fibonacci nim.

Wikipedia

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Fibonacci nim/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Premeditated Chaos (talk · contribs) 08:09, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Finally, a math GAN that my tiny brain can comprehend. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 08:09, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Since Whinihan & Gaskell don't have articles, could we get a touch of context as to who they are? Even "mathematician" would help orient the unfamiliar reader.
- I said a little more about Gaskell (who may well be notable as a fellow of AAAS; see his cv at [1]). I can't find anything more about Whinihan than the affiliation listed in the reference, "Medford Senior High School", which is probably the one in Medford Oregon but might instead be the one in Medford Wisconsin. I can't even tell whether he was a student or teacher at the high school.
I notice that the lead contains information that isn't in the body, against MOS:LEAD.
- Ok, the historical information is now moved out of the lead, and replaced with more summary of other content. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:12, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I don't really understand why footnote 5 is formatted the way it is rather than just being a citation.
- Replaced with just a citation. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:46, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
In particular, when the starting pile... I'm pretty sure this sentence is a fragment
- I don't think so. It has the structure (adverbial clause 1) (adverbial clause 2) ((main clause 1) and (main clause 2)) with (adverbial clause 1) = "In particular", (adverbial clause 2) = "when the starting pile has a Fibonacci number of coins", (main clause 1) = "the Zeckendorf representation consists of that one number" and (main clause 2) = "the quota n − 1 is smaller than that number". But since you found it confusing, I tried splitting it up into shorter sentences. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:46, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, this is a surprisingly small amount of comments. IMO this is an esoteric subtopic within an esoteric topic area that is intended to serve an audience that will understand underlying ideas, so I don't think it's necessary or all that useful to have in-text breakdown of mathematical terms. The strategy, which forms the bulk of the article, is explained in a clear enough way that even I can muddle through despite not having any knowledge of the underlying concepts. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 16:16, 20 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Premeditated Chaos: All comments addressed; please take another look. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:12, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good to me! ♠PMC♠ (talk) 03:13, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 03:17, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(

Comment or view
Article history

)

... that the first player can win a game of Fibonacci nim unless it starts with a Fibonacci number of coins? Source: [2], "provided the pile size is not a Fibonacci number, the first player wins"
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Disneyland measles outbreak

Improved to Good Article status by David Eppstein (talk). Self-nominated at 05:14, 24 February 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Freshly promoted GA, no policy issues. Interesting hook based on mathematical concepts widely known in recreational maths circles. Hook fact stated in article and cited inline. QPQ has been done. Nothing to complain about. —Kusma (talk) 10:21, 24 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]