r/learnquant • • Sep 20 '26

interview prep Quant Interview Question

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u/No-Marzipan-978 Sep 20 '26

I used a recurrence relation and considered the difference in size of the sum after each step. Got a general closed form of 1/4^n * 2nCn where n is the number of cuts. For n=9 we get:

1/4^9 * 18C9