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Save the Prisoner!

  • annabrit
     + 9 comments

    JavaScript evil solution: 

    function saveThePrisoner(n, m, s) {
    return (m-1 + s)%n || n;
}

    Taking advantage of 0 being a falsey value in JavaScript and short circuit boolean expression evaluation. ;)