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A jail has prisoners, and each prisoner has a unique id number, , ranging from to . There are sweets that must be distributed to the prisoners. The jailer decides the fairest way to do this is by sitting the prisoners down in a circle (ordered by ascending ), and then, starting with some random , distribute one candy at a time to each sequentially numbered prisoner until all candies are distribut

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