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I was puzzled by "churning out CRUD apps is math intensive" - could you explain? I do agree that the aforementioned fields are not necessarily math-intensive —

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• michaelt 7y ago
  dragonwriter is being facetious. An accountant or tax adviser needs reasonable applied math skills, but isn't likely to need to know the difference between a cardinality and a cartesian product. Likewise, most working programmers don't need to know the difference in their day-to-day work - although they might need to in order to pass a CS degree as a gateway to getting hired.
  • tyingq 7y ago
    The premise of the article, though, doesn't seem to hinge on higher level or complex math.