A386643 Elimination order of the first person in a variation of the Josephus problem in which one person is skipped, then one is eliminated, then two people are skipped and one eliminated, then three people are skipped and so on.
1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4, 5, 3, 7, 9, 5, 7, 4, 10, 6, 13, 16, 18, 5, 17, 10, 22, 22, 8, 17, 6, 21, 15, 27, 18, 16, 18, 23, 7, 12, 35, 35, 36, 28, 13, 15, 37, 8, 21, 30, 16, 37, 26, 30, 41, 23, 19, 9, 28, 33, 13, 28, 44, 50, 35, 60, 58, 53, 10, 47, 61, 41, 37, 26, 34, 70, 15, 66, 34, 50, 11, 55, 19, 70, 70
Offset: 1
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Consider 4 people in a circle. Initially, person number 1 is skipped, and person 2 is eliminated. The remaining people are now in order 3, 4, 1. Then, two people are skipped, and person 1 is eliminated, implying that the order of elimination of the first person is 2: a(4) = 2.