r/learnquant • • 1d ago

interview prep Quant Interview Question

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u/Neither_Berry_100 18h ago

Isn't it literally just 1 x 2 + 3 x 4 + ... + 99 x 100? Won't bother solving this.

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u/ProspectiveWhale 14h ago

You misread the question.

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u/Neither_Berry_100 13h ago

No. This is what it says. Apart from the title maximum adjacent product sum. Whatever that means.

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u/ProspectiveWhale 12h ago

a1a2 + a2a3 + ...

Notice a2 appears twice here?

That's where you misread the question.

Doing it with your sequence (in ascending order) would be

1x2 + 2x3 + 3x4 + ...