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Discussion on: How important is math in computer programming?

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edA‑qa mort‑ora‑y • Edited

Do you disagree with my assessment of the breadth of the math discipline? Or are you really saying that a coder could get away without know any math what-so-ever?

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Sergiu-Lucian Petrica

I said advanced mathematics, you obviously can't get away as a programmer without knowing basic maths.
However generalizing that a programmer who hates maths is a programmer you should avoid is beyond silly. It depends on the subfield. If you're gonna hire a game engine developer who doesn't know trigonometry or linear algebra of course you're gonna have a bad time, but if you're hiring a mobile developer you don't care how good he is at calculus.