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wu :: forums    riddles    easy (Moderators: towr, SMQ, Grimbal, Icarus, Eigenray, william wu, ThudnBlunder)    Sole Survivor « Previous topic | Next topic » Pages: 1  Reply Notify of replies Send Topic Print    Author  Topic: Sole Survivor  (Read 783 times) mikedagr8 Uberpuzzler A rich man is one who is content; not wealthy.     Gender: Posts: 1105 Sole Survivor   « on: Dec 7th, 2008, 7:45pm » Quote Modify You are 1 of 1000 people in a circle and a decimation occurs. What position do you need to be in to be the last alive? Show your solution. IP Logged "It's not that I'm correct, it's that you're just not correct, and so; I am right." - M.P.E. ThudnBlunder wu::riddles Moderator Uberpuzzler The dewdrop slides into the shining Sea     Gender: Posts: 4489 Re: Sole Survivor   « Reply #1 on: Dec 7th, 2008, 7:54pm » Quote Modify Easy? Assuming you mean repeated decimation, when every other person is killed the problem has an explicit solution. Otherwise, it doesn't and one needs to write a simple program, I think. « Last Edit: Dec 7th, 2008, 9:49pm by ThudnBlunder » IP Logged THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH.....................................................................er, if that's all right with the rest of you. mikedagr8 Uberpuzzler A rich man is one who is content; not wealthy.     Gender: Posts: 1105 Re: Sole Survivor   « Reply #2 on: Dec 8th, 2008, 4:34am » Quote Modify Well, from what I understood of the link, yes that is the system I was after. My answer is 976. IP Logged "It's not that I'm correct, it's that you're just not correct, and so; I am right." - M.P.E. towr wu::riddles Moderator Uberpuzzler Some people are average, some are just mean.     Gender: Posts: 13730 Re: Sole Survivor   « Reply #3 on: Dec 8th, 2008, 9:46am » Quote Modify I seem to get 63. Are you killing every tenth man, or every first nine? Or what? IP Logged Wikipedia, Google, Mathworld, Integer sequence DB Grimbal wu::riddles Moderator Uberpuzzler     Gender: Posts: 7527 Re: Sole Survivor   « Reply #4 on: Dec 8th, 2008, 10:01am » Quote Modify I find 63.  But I count from 0. IP Logged Pages: 1  Reply Notify of replies Send Topic Print Forum Jump: ----------------------------- riddles -----------------------------=> easy   - medium   - hard   - what am i   - what happened   - microsoft   - cs   - putnam exam (pure math)   - suggestions, help, and FAQ   - general problem-solving / chatting / whatever ----------------------------- general -----------------------------  - guestbook   - truth   - complex analysis   - wanted   - psychology   - chinese « Previous topic | Next topic »

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