This is highly debatable. I have been coding in the finance, airline and manufacturing industry since '99. Not once have any advanced (read above HS algebra) ma

This is highly debatable. I have been coding in the finance, airline and manufacturing industry since '99. Not once have any advanced (read above HS algebra) mathematical concepts been necessary. My experience has been that the advance math stuff is the edge case in software development. The bulk of it is crud, business logic, parsing and I/O.