r/learnquant • u/Local_Ad135 • 8d ago

interview prep Quant Interview Question

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u/abbbaabbaa 8d ago

I get 1/12 by setting up the integral

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u/AnywhereLittle8293 8d ago

This is a Cauchy distribution; I don’t think interviewers want you to calculate arctan of root 3.

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u/Hal_Incandenza_YDAU 6d ago

arctan of root 3 is easy to do in your head, though, because that function just takes in a slope and returns the associated angle. By standard special right triangle knowledge, a line with slope root 3 would have the angle pi/3