Sequence A112088 Motivation and Example?

[Rainer Rosenthal]

Max Alekseyev wrote:
> On 6/9/06, Max <maxale at gmail.com> wrote:
>>On 6/9/06, Graeme McRae <g_m at mcraefamily.com> wrote:
>>>It took me quite some time to understand how Ranier Rosenthal is counting
                                                Rainer (please)
>>>rounds, before I obtained A112088 as the number of rounds necessary to kill
>>>all but one of n players of the Josephus Game with every third man out.

Many many thanks for this post!

Some days ago I found my last scribblings, which were meant for
another comment to A112088. But it's all that long ago ... I
didn't understand anything of what I wrote :-(

I'm going to print your mail now and maybe I will find the
energy to get back to all these lovely round-countings.

As far as I remember I wasn't able to really grasp the idea of
the original submitter (Simon Strandgaard). From the discussions
in de.sci.mathematik and de.rec.denksport I remember that there
were some remarks giving hints to Knuth. Oops ... long time ago.

Friendly greetings,
Rainer