Naman Pal on Instagram: "The Josephus Problem is one of the most fascinating puzzles in math & computer science. 🌀 Imagine this: 100 people stand in a circle. Starting from person 1, each person eliminates the one next to them. This continues round and round… until only one survivor is left. 😨 Now here’s the mind-blowing part → Instead of simulating the whole process, math gives us a direct formula to find the last survivor. For k = 2 (kill next person): 1. Write the number of people in binary

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Stanford University on Instagram: "Still one of the greatest moments in Nobel history. At 2:15 a.m. on Oct. 12, 2020, a security camera caught Prof. Emeritus Robert Wilson in slippers, ringing and knocking at Prof. Paul Milgrom’s front door. “Paul, it’s Bob Wilson. You’ve won the Nobel Prize.” Actually they’d both won. The longtime collaborators, who conveniently lived across the street from each other, were jointly recognized for their contributions to auction design — but only one had been rea