Sorry. I understood the question wrong. I agree with you that 12 is the upper bound.

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I had interviews with this group early this week, and I am waiting for their decisions. I have very good impression about this group. The interviewers are smart, and the trading they are doing sounds great to me.

<t>Let us suppose that there are N integers from 1, ..., N. We will pick up two random numbers A and Buniformly from this set. Suppose that the prime numbers in this set are: p1, p2, ..., p_mthen the probability that p1|A and p1|B is: C(N/p1, 2) / C(N,2) with is almost 1/p1^2 when N is large.Then th...

What do you mean by "random", Poisson distribution, Gaussian distribution?Can you give more specific P(x=n)?

<t>Two generals have the same amount of units (continuous) to compete over three battlefields in a campaign. In each battlefield, the general who assigns more units wins. The general winning 2 battlefields wins the entire campaign. They simultaneously announce their decision of unit distribution ove...

<t>Is this a group in FICC?I had an on-campus interview with FICC in GS last month. There were one programing language question, one algorithm&data structure question, two probability question, one about ODE, and three questions from quantitative finance. I didn't get brainteaser type questions....

Given n points drawn randomly on the circumference of a circle, what is the probability they will all be within any common semicircle?

<t>Quote The correlation of X and Z depends on the correlation of the residuals when each of these is regressed on Y. If the correlation of the residuals is zero, the correlation of X and Z is 0.72 (0.9*0.8). If it is one, the correlation of X and Z is 0.98. If it is negative one, the correlation of...

The answer is correct. I aslo did in this way. But it is tedious to check all the six situations. There are smarter way to solve this problem.

Given two i.i.d uniform random points x and y on the interval [0,1] , what is the average size of the smallest of the three resulting intervals?

If X, Y, and Z are 3 random variables such that X and Y are 90% correlated, and Y and Z are 80% correlated, what is the minimum correlation that X and Z can have?

Hint: The assigments in the box should be the sequence1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 14,...

QuoteOriginally posted by: rblaser16 boxes would do it. This generalizes to 2*ceiling[log_3[N]+1].I am afraid that 16 is not enough. If you post the box assignment, I can check it for you.

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: alexandreCby any chance, is it(with some modifications in case the result is a non integer)(but am so tired at this time, so this might be nonsense.)I am afraid that this is not a right answer!It is specified that: " give any TWO AMOUNTS $X and $Y". This means that you ...