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Problem description. Louise and Richard play a game. They have a counter set to N. In every game, Louise gets the first turn and the turns alternate thereafter. In the game, they perform the following operations. If N is not a power of 2 , reduce the counter by the largest power of 2 less than N . If N is a power of 2 , reduce the counter by half of N . The resultant value is the new N which is

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