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Banach game

In mathematics, the Banach game is a topological game introduced by Stefan Banach in 1935 in the second addendum to problem 43 of the Scottish book as a variation of the Banach–Mazur game.

Given a subset of real numbers, two players alternately write down arbitrary (not necessarily in ) positive real numbers such that Player one wins if and only if exists and is in .

One observation about the game is that if is a countable set, then either of the players can cause the final sum to avoid the set. Thus in this situation the second player has a winning strategy.

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