freeCodeCamp/curriculum/challenges/english/10-coding-interview-prep/project-euler/problem-436-unfair-wager.md

---
id: 5900f5221000cf542c510033
title: 'Problem 436: Unfair wager'
challengeType: 5
forumTopicId: 302107
dashedName: problem-436-unfair-wager
---

# --description--

Julie proposes the following wager to her sister Louise.

She suggests they play a game of chance to determine who will wash the dishes.

For this game, they shall use a generator of independent random numbers uniformly distributed between 0 and 1.

The game starts with S = 0.

The first player, Louise, adds to S different random numbers from the generator until S > 1 and records her last random number 'x'.

The second player, Julie, continues adding to S different random numbers from the generator until S > 2 and records her last random number 'y'.

The player with the highest number wins and the loser washes the dishes, i.e. if y > x the second player wins.

For example, if the first player draws 0.62 and 0.44, the first player turn ends since 0.62+0.44 > 1 and x = 0.44. If the second players draws 0.1, 0.27 and 0.91, the second player turn ends since 0.62+0.44+0.1+0.27+0.91 > 2 and y = 0.91. Since y > x, the second player wins.

Louise thinks about it for a second, and objects: "That's not fair". What is the probability that the second player wins? Give your answer rounded to 10 places behind the decimal point in the form 0.abcdefghij

# --hints--

`euler436()` should return 0.5276662759.

```js
assert.strictEqual(euler436(), 0.5276662759);
```

# --seed--

## --seed-contents--

```js
function euler436() {

  return true;
}

euler436();
```

# --solutions--

```js
// solution required
```