Calculus (yes, continuous calculus) is pretty much the most important area of math you need to know to program well. In my books, if one can't integrate/differe

Calculus (yes, continuous calculus) is pretty much the most important area of math you need to know to program well. In my books, if one can't integrate/differentiate a formula, they shouldn't be allowed to program a computer. Because that's how you end up with algorithms that take way too long to finish because the author couldn't bother to estimate how much computation the algorithm needs to perform at large inputs.