Xiao Fan is playing a game with
nnn pla
yers, where you always find himself ranking either first or last.
This is quite strange, right? One possible explanation is that the game system is rigged; another possible explanation is that Xiao Fan is risk-taking and would seize every opportunity to reach the top spot at the expense of lower expected scores.
Now, suppose Xiao Fan is an average player who ranks uniformly at random each time independently. How likely is it that Xiao Fan is always the ``outstanding'' one, either first or last, in mmm consecutive games?
To be more precise, in an nnn player game, an average player takes rank i (1≤i≤n)i~ (1 \leq i \leq n)i (1≤i≤n) with probability 1/n1/n1/n. The first means the rank 111, and the last means the rank nnn.