Modified josephus problem
Assume there are 1159687 people standing in a circle.
First person has a sword, he kills the second person and hands over the the sword to the third person, the third person kills the fourth person and hands over the sword to the fifth....
All the persons do the same until only 1 survives. Who will survive at the end?
The answer is 222223.
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1 solution
There is about 10 times this problem was posted in Brilliant.