Liyi Zhang
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Leetcode Hard Page 6

Purpose

link to the following questions: hard1499-1739

Stone Game IV

To get if the first player can remove the last stone if two players take turns to remove #square number stones. Let the function denote whether the current player is guaranteed to win or not if there are n stones left If the current player is the winner, the next player is not guaranteed to win in some of the next state.

def dfs(n):
    i = 1
    while n-i**2 >= 0:
        # get next state
        if next player can not win in this state,then return true
        i += 1