递增随机数游戏:先手胜率
Increasing Random Numbers Game
题目详情
两人轮流从 抽样,形成序列 。只要序列严格递增游戏继续;第一次抽到的数小于上一次抽到的数的人输。
若你先手,获胜概率是多少?
英文原题
We play a game by taking turns sampling values from a Uniform[0, 1] distribution. The game continues as long as the sequence is strictly increasing. The first person to draw a number smaller than the previous one loses. If you go first, what is your probability of winning?
解析
设游戏在第 次抽样时首次失败(即 但 )。
对连续分布, 个样本的相对大小顺序等可能。事件“前 个严格递增”意味着在 个数的全排列中,前 个必须是递增的那一种顺序,占比 。在此条件下,要在第 次失败等价于 不是这 个数中的最大值,共有 种可能位置,因此
你在 为偶数时获胜(对手抽到了失败那步),所以
并且
因此
答案:。
英文解析
Suppose the game fails for the first time at the -th draw (i.e., but ).
For a continuous distribution, the relative ordering of samples is equally likely. The event "the first are strictly increasing" implies that among all permutations of the numbers, the first must be in increasing order, which occurs with probability . Under this condition, failing at the -th draw is equivalent to not being the maximum of these numbers; there are possible positions for the maximum, so
You win when is even (the opponent draws the failure step), so
And
therefore
Answer: .