Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (7th Edition)
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (7th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780133594140
Author: James Kurose, Keith Ross
Publisher: PEARSON
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Alice and Bob are playing a match to see who is the first to win n games, for some fixed n > 0. Suppose Alice and Bob are equally competent, that is, each of them wins a game with probability 1/2. Further, suppose that they have already played i + j games, of which Alice won i and Bob won j.

Give an efficient algorithm to compute the probability that Alice will go on to win the match. For example, if i = n  1 and j = n  3, then the probability that Alice will win the match is 7/8, since she must win any of the next three games.

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