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Re:'Algebra for none' fails in San Francisco by starik36 on Monday April 17, 2023 @02:07AM (#35597300)
> Math at the college level is very useful

Useful to whom? I've been coding for 30 years and the most complicated math ever I used was for calculating distance between two lat/lon points and even that I looked up.

Is it useful to an average worker sitting in front of a PC? I do not believe so.

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Re:'Algebra for none' fails in San Francisco by stcroixx on Monday April 17, 2023 @04:14PM (#35605959)
25 years doing dev work, also never used anything more than basic arithmetic. I barely passed my college math requirements - still don’t understand what calculus is for, never came up writing CRUD apps.
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