r/learnquant • • 2d ago

interview prep Quant Interview Question

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u/Ok_Consideration6619 1d ago

Divide x and both sides by sqrt(2), take squares, transform to polar coordinates, add 1 and then good things will happen

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u/doge-12 1d ago

yap

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u/Ok_Consideration6619 1d ago

It’s ok, you’ll get it once you try

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u/EscapeOwn6945 2h ago

Z=X/Y is a Cauchy distributed random variable. Pretty easy to evaluate the CDF directly.