Problem 50811. Compute the nth term from the Sieve of Flavius Josephus

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<div style = "text-align: start; line-height: 20.4333px; min-height: 0px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, monospace; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal; "><div style="block-size: 165px; display: block; min-width: 0px; padding-block-start: 0px; padding-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 407px 82.5px; transform-origin: 407px 82.5px; vertical-align: baseline; "><div style="block-size: 63px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-block-end: 9px; margin-block-start: 2px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-inline-end: 10px; margin-inline-start: 4px; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 2px; perspective-origin: 384px 31.5px; text-align: left; transform-origin: 384px 31.5px; white-space: pre-wrap; margin-left: 4px; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-right: 10px; "><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 381.5px 8px; transform-origin: 381.5px 8px; unicode-bidi: normal; "><span style="">To apply the Sieve of Eratosthenes, start with the natural numbers (skipping 1), keep the first number (i.e., 2), and delete all multiples (4, 6, 8, 10, etc.). Then repeat: keep the first remaining number (3) and delete all multiples (9, 15, 21, etc.). The remaining numbers are the primes. </span></span></div><div style="block-size: 63px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-block-end: 9px; margin-block-start: 2px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-inline-end: 10px; margin-inline-start: 4px; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 2px; perspective-origin: 384px 31.5px; text-align: left; transform-origin: 384px 31.5px; white-space: pre-wrap; margin-left: 4px; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-right: 10px; "><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 247.5px 8px; transform-origin: 247.5px 8px; unicode-bidi: normal; "><span style="">To apply the Sieve of Flavius Josephus, start with the natural numbers. On the </span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;STIXGeneral&quot;, &quot;STIXGeneral-webfont&quot;, serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">k</span><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 70.5px 8px; transform-origin: 70.5px 8px; unicode-bidi: normal; "><span style="">th step, remove every </span></span><span style="vertical-align:-5px"><img src="data:image/png;base64,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" alt="(k+1)" style="width: 46px; height: 18.5px;" width="46" height="18.5"></span><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 23.5px 8px; transform-origin: 23.5px 8px; unicode-bidi: normal; "><span style="">st term remaining after the </span></span><span style="vertical-align:-5px"><img src="data:image/png;base64,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" alt="(k-1)" style="width: 46px; height: 18.5px;" width="46" height="18.5"></span><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 296px 8px; transform-origin: 296px 8px; unicode-bidi: normal; "><span style="">st step. So, on the first step, remove every second number (2, 4, 6, 8, etc.) to leave 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17…On the second step, remove every third number (5, 11, 17, etc.) to leave 1, 3, 7, 9, 13, 15, 19,… </span></span></div><div style="block-size: 21px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-block-end: 9px; margin-block-start: 2px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-inline-end: 10px; margin-inline-start: 4px; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 2px; perspective-origin: 384px 10.5px; text-align: left; transform-origin: 384px 10.5px; white-space: pre-wrap; margin-left: 4px; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-right: 10px; "><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 100.5px 8px; transform-origin: 100.5px 8px; unicode-bidi: normal; "><span style="">Write a function to compute the </span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;STIXGeneral&quot;, &quot;STIXGeneral-webfont&quot;, serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">n</span><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 254px 8px; transform-origin: 254px 8px; unicode-bidi: normal; "><span style="">th term in the sequence remaining after the Sieve of Flavius Josephus is applied.</span></span></div></div></div>

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