I think that would be _83 The sequence looks like this:
A _83 B _33 A _66 B _16 A _32 B 18 A 36 B 86 A 172 B 222 A 444 B 494 A 988 _99 through _84 have B win, and anything smaller than _99 has no winner. -- Raul On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Johann Hibschman <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for all your help. > > By the way, the original problem that started me thinking about this was > one of the puzzles given at the MoMath masters tournament last week: > > Imagine a two-player "game", where player A takes a number (integer), > doubles it, and passes it to player B, who adds 50 and passes it back to > player A. The first player to name a number greater than 1000 loses. If A > starts the game by passing an initial number to B, what's the lowest number > A can give that guarantees a win? > > Regards, > Johann > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
