"Oh, here's another fun fact: if you play $1000 per game, and there're two games per week, it would take you 1,300 years to reach the even odds. Of course, lotte..."
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Sample Question #309 (probability theory)
Another fun brainteaser-type question involving odds.
The odds of winning the Powerball lottery in the U.S. on on..."
Feb. 27
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"Most quant jobs are in the United States, so being able to speak good American English can give a quant job candidate a significant advantage.
Of course, for so..."
"Sample Question #308 (finance)
A heretofore obscure hedge fund manager claims that, since 1990, his opportunistic strategy, coupled with "reasonable" leverage..."
"Sample Question #307 (programming - C++)
In C++, when is a class's destructor called? What exactly happens to the data storage and namespace when the destruct..."