Whenever a hawk meets a dove, the dove is killed. Whenever two hawks meet, they fight to death, and both are killed. And if two doves meet, nothing bad happens.

There are H hawks and D doves, and you are either a hawk or a dove. Assuming that meetings are random, what are your chances of survival?

If N = Total number of hawks and doves apart from the observer

Then, the required chance for survival is:

0, whenever N is odd

(N+1)^-1, whenever N is even

 

Edited on October 19, 2008, 11:58 pm

Posted by K Sengupta on 2008-10-19 23:55:42