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13 December

There is a row of 1000 lockers numbered from 1 to 1000. Locker 1 is closed and locked and the rest are open.
A queue of people each do the following (until all the lockers are closed):
Today's number is the number of lockers that are locked at the end of the process.
Note: closed and locked are different states.

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