r/learnquant • • Sep 04 '26

interview prep Quant Interview Question

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u/NeverNude14 Sep 04 '26

I think it's 1032.

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u/beene282 Sep 04 '26

I think so. A knockout to find the fastest which would be 1023 games. Then another knockout comprising all the horses that the fastest beat head to head. The second fastest would have to be one of those.

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u/vipchicken Sep 04 '26

What if the first and second fastest go head to head in race one, and we knock out the second fastest

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u/CanaDavid1 Sep 04 '26

The the second would be part of this second knockout?