Airplane Seat Assignment Probability

n passengers board an airplane with exactly n seats. The first passenger has lost the ticket and picks a seat randomly. But after that, the rest of passengers will:

  • Take their own seat if it is still available,

  • Pick other seats randomly when they find their seat occupied

What is the probability that the n-th person can get his own seat?

Example 1:

Input: n = 1
Output: 1.00000
Explanation: The first person can only get the first seat.

Example 2:

Input: n = 2
Output: 0.50000
Explanation: The second person has a probability of 0.5 to get the second seat (when first person gets the first seat).

Constraints:

  • 1 <= n <= 10^5

class Solution {
    public double nthPersonGetsNthSeat(int n) {
        if(n==1)
            return 1;
        return 0.5;
    }
}

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