Code RoomNim game winner
MediumPrep Room Coding #1054

Nim game winner

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresMid–Senior~20 min

In a game of Nim there are several piles of stones given by `piles`. Players alternate; on a turn a player removes any positive number of stones from exactly one pile. The player who cannot move (faces all-empty piles) loses. Assuming both play optimally and the first player moves first, return True if the first player wins.

Implement
nim_first_player_wins(piles: list[int]) → bool
Examples
in[[1,2,3]]outfalse
What a strong answer looks like

State your approach and its time/space complexity out loud before you optimize. Handle the edge cases (empty input, duplicates, overflow), and say why you chose this over the brute force. Green tests are the floor, not the grade.

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InputExpectedGot
[[1,2,3]]falsenot run yetsample