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I'm not looking for a general discussion on if math is important or not for programming .
Instead I'm looking for real world scenarios where you have actually used some branch of math to solve some particular problem during your career as a software developer...
Started by Brian R. Bondy on
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Discrete math for everything, linear algebra for 3D, analysis for physics especially when trying to simplify conditionals
I've also occasionally written out truth tables to verify since there is no built-in support in the .NET libraries.....
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Please share your ideas for enriching math in My Father's World From A to Z
More math ideas may be found here:
100th day: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=7168
Started by Marie on
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They are not rushing to start that program at K age and... .
So due to differences in how we teach math, even if your child is very good with math, it would be better to wait until age 7 before starting that series.
Of 7 years old (or older).
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Link to the video
What curriculum does your school district use?
Any former teachers have an opinion? Any success or horror stories about teaching math this way?
Started by spiritenergy on
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I would assume it is universal math facts and using tried ....
Dallas ISD uses Everyday Math - well, some of the schools, at least.
To be fair, the cluster method is probably how I would do math in my this.
That is sort of disturbing.
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Ask your Facebook Friends
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I like to eat them (always well cooked) but I HATE the smell.
What would be harder for you: one week without your phone or one week without your computer?
Started by Hawthorn on
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Are you good at maths? I'm not bad at it (my grades in school ....
Do you go to the library often or you prefer to buy/own the books you read? I prefer to buy them .
Savoury pancakes or sweet pancakes? Savoury pancakes.
One week without my computer.
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In your experience as a practicioner, what's the most useful math knowledge for a programmer? If "it depends", what's your field of expertise and what do you need there most as far as math is concerned?
Can you point to any learning material for a beginner...
Started by GLAF on
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This is the classic math....
I've used all of the math .
I kinda wanna just play the "college" card.
There are tons of good textbooks out there for all maths rules I've learned so far.
Graph theory and "discrete math" that often.
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I'm just after reading Jeff's 'Five Things You Didn't Know About Me (and my office)' blog entry on Coding Horror and right at the bottom of this page he mentions (to my surprise) that he is terrible at math:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/0...
Started by redspike on
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by 23 people.
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That said....
I am terrible at math and yet I get paid to write software.
It depends -- are you counting knowing how to use formulas part of math?
I think you need to be able to solve problems and that usually involves algorithms and formulas.
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I'm not sure if this is for SO or not. I am reading some of my old math textbooks and trying to understand math in general. Not how to figure something. I can do that but rather what is it that math is doing.
I'm sure this is painfully obvious but I never...
Started by johnny on
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I agree with Taylor....
Key idea: math can be used is negligable.
Simulation games) it's both very clearly there and pretty darn tricky .
Of abstaction underpins the program, sometimes the math is so "obvious" we hardly notice it, sometimes (eg.
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I am sure many developers here -- at least the ones who were formally trained -- took a fair amount of math courses in the university. Some minored in mathematics. The curriculum usually included Calculus (level 1, 2 and 3), linear algebra, probability...
Started by Andrei on
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He uses crazy-difficult/obscure....
My use of math is limited mostly to understanding the source uses 3D math from time-to-time, but the tools and libraries deal with most of the hard math these days bang.
That depends a lot on what you do.
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7 May 1945 (VE Day) - 16 April 1927 = 18 years, 3 weeks Not 14, BErnie. 18. Steve
Started by pneuguy on
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Www.network54.com/Forum/667241/message/1329232670/The+Truth+about+Ratzinger%27s+war+career+according.
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I'm in Geometry/Honors Chemistry now. I want to teach this stuff to myself, so I need the math/science sequence.
I think it goes something like..
For math: Trig --> Calculus --> Multi-variable Calculus --> Linear Algebra ... then what?
I'll be...
Started by payitforward on
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by 4 people.
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You'll probably just need calculus and differential equations physics major math minor, was told by several current physics and nanotech grad school professors that you can't take enough math as....
Probably less math and more physics.
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