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A comment on Ask HN: Is there a space in the tech scene for the not numerically-inclined?.

Re:Ask HN: Is there a space in the tech scene for the not nu... by collyw on Monday October 22, 2018 @01:52PM (#18276743)
The vast majority of coding these days doesn't involve anything mathematical. (Behind the scenes yes, but for application development that you will likely be coding no.)
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Re:Ask HN: Is there a space in the tech scene for the not nu... by EpicEng on Monday October 22, 2018 @02:17PM (#18276946)
This is technically true, but what typically makes a person good at math is the ability to think logically, critically, and understand systems at a high level of abstraction. The correlation is probably not 1:1, but I have yet to meet a good dev who is terrible at math. That doesn't mean they remember all of the details from school, but they can understand it.
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