Why does it happen? (Post — 1)

Revision en1, by slow.coder, 2015-09-28 09:23:03

LuckyLand Lottery is a problem directly related to Josephus problem!!!

In short:

There are N peoples (N > 0) arranged in a loop (_peoples are numbered from 1 to N_) so that after Nth person 1st person comes. In each lottery round the 2nd person wins starting from random number P (0 < P <= N), then next round starts from that position where it was ended before. Given the value of N and P. You need to find the person who wins at last.

AC soln:

Tags josephus problem

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