Problem 1940. Decimation - Optimized for speed

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This problem is similar to http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/1092-decimation, only this time the score will be based on how quickly you can determine which person will survive.

The sample sizes (num_prisoners) and number of prisoners killed (num_killed) will be larger than in the original problem, but other than that the problem sets are identical.

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Last Solution submitted on May 05, 2025

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Elmar Zander on 29 Mar 2017

Not quite identical to the original problem. In the original problem kill_every is always larger or equal 2, here it can be also 1...

Chris Wilkening on 28 Nov 2023

My submissions keep getting an error that they time out for all the test cases. Running tic/toc on it for case one in the Scratch Pad it takes 0.003869sec. My solution works for problem 1092. If I hard code a numeric output the test cases do not time out.