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, all free to practise. 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 lineMediumCalculusView →
- Balloon related ratesMediumCalculusView →
- Limit of x ln x as x to 0+MediumCalculusView →
- Limit of x^100 over e^xMediumCalculusView →
- MLE at a boundaryMediumStatisticsCalculusView →
- Two uniforms summing below a halfMediumProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
- Two uniforms summing past 1.5MediumProbabilityCalculusView →
- Within distance d on the unit intervalMediumProbabilityCalculusView →
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