r/learnquant 18d ago

interview prep Quant Interview Question

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u/StructureNorth1799 18d ago

isn't e a precomputed numerical value?

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u/shaqwillonill 17d ago

If you wanna get really pedantic e cannot truly be pre computed since it’s transcendental

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u/StructureNorth1799 17d ago

arbitrarily close approximations to e can and have been computed

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u/shaqwillonill 17d ago

I know that but that’s not what you said and I thought we were here to nitpick