Esta unidad gira en torno a un juego: el Nim. La estrategia para ganar en este juego está en realizar ciertos cálculos en base 2. Utilizando el juego como excusa se introducen los primeros conceptos sobre los sistemas de numeración.

Counting was one of the first mathematical activities that primitive man had to learn how to do. Expressing a quantity with symbols meant a great step forward as they were the first number systems. However, they were awkward to work with. The decimal system and place-value notation, which we use nowadays, was thought up in India (VI - IX Century) and the Arabs introduced it to the Western world (X century) where it started to be used in the XIII century. We use the decimal number system as we...