I found this problem online and gave it a good 20 minutes of thought, but I couldn't make much progress
"Define the sequence f(n) in the following manner: f(0) = 0, f(n) = n - f(f(n-1)).
What is f(1000000000000)?"
From: Chris Long's Think & Derive, September 1994, link
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