Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Last man standing

There are 100 persons whose numbers are from 1 to 100 in a circular structure.
Initially one sword has given to first person.The first person killed the second person and handed the sword to third one.Third one killed fourth person and handed it to fifth.
This is continued until all the persons died except the final person.Who is that final person.

9 comments:

vans said...

73rd person

Balu said...
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Balu said...

73rd person

Unknown said...
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Unknown said...

73rd person is d last person

Unknown said...

ya 73 s correct.. can ny1 give a shortcut or logic??

Anonymous said...

73 is the ans

senthil said...

binary form of 100 is 1100100
binary form of 73 is 1001001
you have to just rotate it once. thats all.
if the total number is a power of two then one is the answer

Jayaprakash said...

73.