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+# nimsticks: LaTeX package for drawing Nim sticks and games
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+nimsticks is a package for LaTeX that should also work with LuaTeX and XeTeX, that draws sticks for representating games of multi-pile Nim.
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+By [Peter Rowlett](https://github.com/prowlett/).
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+## Background
+
+Nim objects could be anything, of course, but conventionally sticks or stones are used. There are various types of dot in LaTeX that might look like stones, but somehow a line of dots didn't seem satisfactory. There are various ways to draw a line (e.g. just typing IIIII), including some tally markers (e.g. in hhcount). My problem with these (call me picky) is that they are all identical lines, and a `heap' of them just looks very organised. Really, I want a set of lines that looks like someone just threw them into heaps (though probably without crossings for the avoidance of ambiguity).
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+The way this works is it draws a thick vertical line in TikZ with a little wobble added so each one doesn't look extremely well-lined-up with its neighbour, achieved by adding or subtracting a small random number to the top and bottom coordinate.
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+It does this by providing two commands:
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+- `\drawnimstick`: draws a single Nim stick with a little random wobble;
+- `\nimgame`: takes a comma-separated list of numbers and draws a line of Nim heaps holding those number of sticks.
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+## Licensing
+This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the [MIT license](LICENSE.txt).
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