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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no idea what people are talking about.  I am working as a software developer and I never use math in my daily work. [/quote]

It really depends on what you’re doing.  Machine learning, graph analytics, signal processing, simulations etc., all require a lot of math.  Standard full stack web development doesn’t really require much, other than boolean logic and understanding algorithmic complexity. [b]I will say though, that it’s been my experience that those who are good with math are also good with the analytical problem solving skills necessary to be an excellent developer.
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Your point is valid though; you can work in some (perhaps many) domains in CS without doing a lot of math.[/quote]

I would agree with this.  But I would also say there is a subset of excellent developers who are amazing with analytic problem solving who--for whatever reason--didn't gel with the abstractness of math as it is currently taught (or had weak foundational math education or internalized some stereotypes about their math abilities...).  I can picture a post HS calculus math series where mathematical/logical principles are extracted out from applied computer science problems that might really serve a large swath of folks better.  I think getting to the abstraction is [b]necessary [/b]for generalizable knowledge appropriate to a CS degree, but maybe you don't have to go traditional math route to get there.
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It's not necessary.[/quote]

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