Subj : Re: Good math skills a requirement? To : comp.programming From : John Date : Wed Aug 03 2005 04:45 pm "James C." wrote in message news:Xns96A79191867DAjcon778pemailnet@68.6.19.6... > This question is probably asked often, but can someone be a decent > programmer without any advanced math skills? To be more specific, can > someone get by in programming with simple arithmetic (i.e. addition, > substraction, multiplication, and division)? > > I don't see how a programmer would need anything beyond simple arithmetic > to write an email client in a programming langauage such as Delphi. How in > the heck is geometry, trig, calculus, etc. going to aid in this type of > project? I asked a question similar to this a couple weeks ago and got some pretty good feedback. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.programming/browse_thread/thread/69a3fc225db497ca/1ecad11a0854f891?lnk=st&q=%22Question+about+minimal+requirements+in+programming%22&rnum=1#1ecad11a0854f891 IMHO-It really depends on what you want to develop. You can write business apps without much math, but don't think you will get a job at Oracle or Google. Regards, John .