Calculus Interview Questions for Traders
Traders get asked calculus differently from other quant roles - the emphasis shifts with what the job actually does. This is that slice.
14 questions, 6 of them free to practise right now. The split is 6 easy, 8 medium.
- A compound-interest limit in disguiseEasyCalculusView →
- A limit that hides a difference of logsEasyCalculusView →
- Normalizing a tilted densityEasyRandom VariablesCalculusView →
- Rate of change of a triangle's perimeterEasyCalculusView →
- Summing n plus one over two to the nEasyCalculusView →
- Tangent-minus-sine third-order limitEasyCalculusView →
- A cube root by tangent lineMediumCalculus Premium
- Balloon related ratesMediumCalculus Premium
- Limit of x ln x as x to 0+MediumCalculus Premium
- Limit of x^100 over e^xMediumCalculus Premium
- MLE at a boundaryMediumStatisticsCalculus Premium
- Two uniforms summing below a halfMediumProbabilityRandom Variables Premium
- Two uniforms summing past 1.5MediumProbabilityCalculus Premium
- Within distance d on the unit intervalMediumProbabilityCalculus Premium
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