probability puzzles
deadly | probability |
In a room stand armed and angry people. At each chime of a clock, everyone simultaneously spins around and shoots a random other person. The persons who get shot, fall dead and the survivors spin and shoot again at the next chime. Eventually, either everyone is dead or there is a single survivor.
As grows, what is the limiting probability that there will be a survivor?
Warning: I could not solve it. The solution only shows what I tried.
I have tried the following scripts
Following is the pattern.
It appears to be moving towards 0.5 but I do not have any proof or any intuitive logic as to why.
Also, not sure why these waves appeared, and why the wavelength is expanding.