Addition, subtraction and order relationships (ie > & <) are the only math that really matters. Not convinced? Count the number of * and / in any source file a

Addition, subtraction and order relationships (ie > & <) are the only math that really matters. Not convinced? Count the number of * and / in any source file and compare that to the number of + and - Not to say that math is not useful, it's useful if math related stuff is what you do, which is a very small subset of what CS is about.