Subj : Re: Good math skills a requirement?
To   : comp.programming
From : Scott Moore
Date : Wed Aug 03 2005 06:00 pm

James C. wrote:
> 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? 

A bridge engineer does not need to know math, computers do that.

Now, would YOU hire a bridge engineer who can't add ?

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