Playing with Numbers

The number \(X\) is equal to 33750000.
Two people play a game as follows: each person in his turn divides X
by one of the divisors of X which is either prime or a power of a prime
number (e.g., 2, 17, 8, 9, ol 125). Players play in turns until the
value of \(X\) becomes 1. Whoever turns
\(X\) into 1 wins the game. Which
player has a winning strategy?
Link to the problem on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Riazi_Cafe/status/1678625174537527297
The winner of the game is the second player (if both players play
optimally).
The solution is based on the Nim game explained below. By decomposing
number 33750000 into its prime factors, it can be seen that the powers
of bases two, three and five are equal to four, three and seven (i.e.,
\(33750000 = 2^4 3^3 5^7\)). Because
each time a player reduces the power of one of the bases of \(X\), this game is equivalent to a Nim game
with pile sizes three, four and seven and thus the winner of the game is
the second player.
Explanation of the Nim game: Nim is a two-player game
in combinatorial mathematics which includes a number of piles where pile
contains a number of beans. Two players take turns to remove the beans
from the piles. In each turn, a player must choose one of the non-empty
piles and remove some (at least one) beans from it. The winner of the
game is the player who removes the last bean from the piles.
The optimal strategy in the Nim game is to always play in such a way that after your move the XOR of the number of beans in the piles is equals 0. This is possible if and only if the XOR of the number of beans before your move is not equal to 0. For example, if there are two piles of sizes 3 and 5, their XOR will be 6, and removing two beans from a pile of 5 will make the XOR of the number of beans of the piles equal to zero.
Therefore, if the XOR of the number of beans is zero initially, the
player who plays first will lose. This is because after his move the XOR
of the number of beans will be non-zero and the opponent can always play
in a way that the XOR of the number of beans of the piles becomes zero
again. By repeating this process, the opponent will win the game.
Because in the Nim game equivalent to our original problem, the XOR of
the beans of the equivalent piles (three, four and seven) is equal to
zero, the second player has a winning strategy.
Solution link on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Riazi_Cafe/status/1679386866783776769