Abstract
We show that two duelers with similar, lousy shooting skills (a.k.a. Galois duelers) will choose to take turns firing in accordance with the famous Thue-Morse sequence if they greedily demand their chances to fire as soon as the other's a priori probability of winning exceeds their own. This contrasts with a result from the approximation theory of complex functions that says what more patient duelers would do, if they really cared about being as fair as possible. We note a consequent interpretation of the Thue-Morse sequence in terms of certain expansions in fractional bases close to, but greater than, 1.
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