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Originally Posted by InfamousNoone
While I can only talk on behalf of Ontario (a province in Canada) I find it staggering the amount of people who have high 90's in math, but then shoot themselves in the foot when it comes to physics. What does that say? Well, math is being memorized where as physics forces you to actually... think.
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I'm one of those people, but it's not really a hard subject; it's the way it's taught at my university... that is, pointlessly rigorous and we were expected to be "fluent" in physics, and when I took the class, no one was a physics major (all engineering) and he had to grade on a 19 point bell curve.
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Originally Posted by KraHen
My argument pro math importance in programming : graph theory and game theory.
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I agree, discrete math is really important for computer science in general and has a slew of applications (by the way, discrete math is pretty much entirely logic based). When I said that you don't use math much in programming, I was talking about continuous math.