General solution to the spectator-first Tantalizer problem

DOI10.1016/J.DISC.2021.112515MaRDI QIDQ2043387zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wei-Tung Chuang, Fu-Yuen Hsiao, Hongbin Chen

Publication date 2 August 2021

Published in Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.disc.2021.112515

zbMATH Keywords

card magicJosephus problemTantalizer problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Recreational mathematics (00A08) Popularization of mathematics (00A09) Permutations, words, matrices (05A05) Special sequences and polynomials (11B83)

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• A More Malicious Maitre d’
• On the recurrence formula for fixed points of the Josephus function

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