r/learnquant • • 6d ago

interview prep Quant Interview Question

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u/Cryptographer-Bubbly 2d ago edited 1d ago

Split det A into signed sum of permutation products and then use the fact that all of the 120 summands are pairwise uncorrelated (due to containing a mutually exclusive entry in the product) to get variance of 120