Problem 2697. Probability of winning single-elimination tournament

Created by Paul Berglund

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Jon on 1 Dec 2014

Could you make your test cases consistent on using either 0 or NaN on the diagonal?

Paul Berglund on 2 Dec 2014

OK, I made it consistently use NaN.

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