Calculus Questions for Prop Trading Interviews
A prop trading round does not test calculus the way a textbook does. This set is the overlap - the calculus questions that actually turn up in this format.
18 questions, 7 of them free to practise right now. The split is 3 easy, 14 medium, 1 hard.
- A race between two small-angle ratesEasyCalculusView →
- Ripple on a pondEasyCalculusView →
- Slope of a product at a special pointEasyCalculusView →
- A point near the cone's baseMediumProbabilityCalculusView →
- Newton's division-free reciprocalMediumCalculusView →
- Rate of a growing shadowMediumCalculusView →
- Volume where two cylinders crossMediumCalculusView →
- Arc length of a curveMediumCalculus Premium
- Cheapest open-top boxMediumCalculus Premium
- Convergence of the integral of x^(-p)MediumCalculus Premium
- Expectation of −2 ln UMediumRandom VariablesCalculus Premium
- Integral by substitution: 2x e^(x^2)MediumCalculus Premium
- Leibniz rule derivative at x = 1MediumCalculus Premium
- Two uniforms summing below a halfMediumProbabilityRandom Variables Premium
- Two uniforms summing past 1.5MediumProbabilityCalculus Premium
- Where the slope is steepest downhillMediumCalculus Premium
- Within distance d on the unit intervalMediumProbabilityCalculus Premium
- Absorption in naive floating-point summationHardCalculusProgramming & DSA Premium
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