Legend has it that during the Jewish-Roman battle, the first-century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus was taken prisoner among a group of 40 other Jews. The captive troops made a decision to commit suicide rather than be caught and made plans to do so. To kill every third soldier until they were all dead, they were to surround the enemy in a circle. When Joseph and one other person decided they didn't want to participate, they rapidly calculated where they needed to be in the circle for survival. Create a software that enables you to put n persons in a circle and tell it to murder every m of them. The final individual in the circle should be identified by number by the software.

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Legend has it that during the Jewish-Roman battle, the first-century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus was taken prisoner among a group of 40 other Jews. The captive troops made a decision to commit suicide rather than be caught and made plans to do so. To kill every third soldier until they were all dead, they were to surround the enemy in a circle. When Joseph and one other person decided they didn't want to participate, they rapidly calculated where they needed to be in the circle for survival. Create a software that enables you to put n persons in a circle and tell it to murder every m of them. The final individual in the circle should be identified by number by the software.

 

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