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Induction · Superchallenge problem

In a game, a player may remove any positive perfect square number of stones (1,4,9,…1, 4, 9, \ldots); whoever takes the last stone wins. Classify positions by strong induction on the pile size. For how many piles nn with 1≤n≤501 \le n \le 50 does the player to move LOSE?