Oct 16, 2016

What level of maths is involved in your role?

Obviously in Finance everything revolves around numbers. But my main question is in your role, what is the level of maths you do? Is it only percentages and addition, subtraction and multiplication or is complex maths?

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larry david

10y

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Mostly just arithmetic. Sometimes I have to use 7th grade algebra.

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rkell3y

10y

Definitely basic arithmetic. anything more complex and just plug it into Excel

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12468086

10y

bump!

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illuminati

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excel

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VolSurface

10y

numerical solutions to stochastic differential equations

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Dollarfor60Cents

10y

What kind of question is this? We use very basic math and make assumptions all day...

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seville

10y

And why are you bumping this? What kind of answer are you looking for?

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thebrofessor

10y

differential equations, advanced calc, and non euclidean geometry.

jk bro, I count on my fingers most of the day

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