Sprouts 2026 Summaries
Kyle (noreply@blogger.com)
We held Sprouts 2026 yesterday! We are so lucky to get such awesome talks! Here are my summaries of each of them: Arjun Agrawal: "Collecting Coins on Trees" Arjun introduced an impartial scoring game on a list of cards. Each turn a player selects a card at one of the two ends of the list and adds that value to their score. Arjun gave a O(n) strategy for the first player to win on even-length lists. The algorithm replaces trios of cards with an equivalent single card when possible until the