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[Daco]

Daco - For simplicity, we can ignore the possibility of a player becoming injured and unable to shoot: a player is either alive or dead.
So no 50% alive option.

I am not amazed at all.
Ayden you do realize, that shooting into the air does not prevent others from shooting him. Because once A or B is dead. they will shoot C.

That's what I did... the "drops" or "loses"  signs are just to clarify how the person dies..

Is the calculus correct?

[Jubin]

Nope Daco it's not. Let's for example take both of your 1st scenario ones. A) They would be that, A has 50% chance of surviving and C has 50% of surviving.
B) A has 20% chance of surviving and B has 80% chance of surviving.
Survivng chance does not mean that A does have another chance of shooting.

You can check Call_Me_Dad's calculations and his logic how the system works.

[Daco]

Since the three men's shooting strategies will depend on the higher their chances will be, I will try to do this with logic..

If Adam is the one that shoots first, he will be shooting Bertie to eliminate his chance so that only Charlie remains (the guy with the lowest aim accuracy). Now it's Charlie's turn to shoot, Adam gets owned with 50% chance of killing him.

Charlie now has 50% chance of winning, and Adam 50%.

If Bertie shoots first, He shoots at Adam first to prevent himself from a possible kill.

• If Bertie fails, Adam will have a 20% of winning this phase, and thus we go back to the previous scenario. Adam will have 20% chance in succeeding the duel by surviving and additional 50% of winning against Charlie. He will have 35% in total. Charlie will still have 50% chance.
• If he succeeds, Adam will die, Charlie will have, again, 50% chance in winning, leaving Bertie with 80% of winning the first duel and additional 50% of winning against Charlie. He will have 65% in total.

In summary, if Bertie shoots, Charlie will have 50% chance, Bertie 32,5% and Adam 17,5%.

If Charlie chooses to shoot, he obviously will not shoot because he will f**k it up, so he misses so the other two will mess it up and he gets a free pass. In this case, we'll return to one of the previous scenarios.

Overall, Charlie has the highest chance of winning (50%), Adam 33,75% and Bertie 16,25%.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK my head hurts like f**k.

Although I'm sure my calculus is wrong, but at least I made a progress.
Post Merge: April 09, 2011, 07:00:02 pmPardon, Jubin. My logic at the start was very wrong and I didn't clearly read your riddle very well, I hope this one isn't as much screwed... :razz:

[Jubin]

Yes Daco, you have made progress and this one isn't so screwed, but you still have a long way to go.

[Daco]

So we agree that Charlie is the guy with the most winning chances, correct?

What else now?

[Call_me_Dad]

Im not sure where did i go wrong

Maybe this problem will involve Baye's Theorem.

[Jubin]

Call_Me_Dad, you didn't give much of a thought that maybe at some cases it is good when Charlie misses on purpose.

[Daco]

Bump.
Post Merge: April 03, 2012, 11:31:15 am

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[duffman]

[Matt Murdock]

Ok any Geography geeks here?

[Daco]

Ok any Geography geeks here?

Sorry I do either math or physics

well you use google for that

right?

[ElMartu]

i can into geography

everyone can, you just google it

[Daco]

Bump.

[Jimmylicious]

cant understand maths. If anyone willing to help, give me Q.

[Jubin]

cant understand maths. If anyone willing to help, give me Q.

"Math is the lesbian sister of biology." - Peter Griffin

Also Daco is willing to help you.