A325594 Last remaining numbers after a symmetric variation of the Josephus problem.
1, 1, 3, 4, 3, 6, 1, 3, 9, 1, 11, 5, 11, 7, 9, 14, 5, 12, 7, 12, 11, 14, 9, 22, 5, 20, 7, 28, 3, 30, 1, 11, 25, 9, 27, 5, 35, 7, 33, 3, 41, 1, 43, 5, 43, 7, 41, 19, 33, 17, 35, 13, 43, 15, 41, 27, 33, 25, 35, 29, 35, 31
Offset: 1
Keywords
Links
- Hiroshi Matsui, Toshiyuki Yamauchi, Soh Tatsumi, Takahumi Inoue, Masakazu Naito and Ryohei Miyadera, Interesting Variants of the Josephus Problem, Computer Algebra - Design of Algorithms, Implementations and Applications, Kokyuroku, The Research Institute of Mathematical Science, No. 1652, (2009), 44-54.
- Masakazu Naito and Ryohei Miyadera, The Josephus Problem in Both Directions, The Wolfram Demonstrations Project.
- Masakazu Naito, Sohtaro Doro, Daisuke Minematsu and Ryohei Miyadera, The Self-Similarity of the Josephus Problem and its Variants, Visual Mathematics, Volume 11, No. 2, 2009.
- Index entries for sequences related to the Josephus Problem
Programs
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Mathematica
joseboth[m_, mm_] := Block[{t, p, q, u, v, w}, w = mm - 1; t = Range[m]; p = t; q = t; Do[p = RotateLeft[p, w]; u = First[p]; p = Rest[p]; q = Drop[q, Position[q, u][[1]]]; If[Length[p] == 1, Break[],]; q = RotateRight[q, w]; v = Last[q]; q = Drop[q, -1]; p = Drop[p, Position[p, v][[1]]]; If[Length[q] == 1, Break[],], {n, 1, Ceiling[m/2]}]; p[[1]]];
Formula
A165556(n) = a(n) mod 2.
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