I know the question posed here has nuances (the question of the title of the blog post as well as its contents as it tries to answer. Here’s a simple truth I’v

I know the question posed here has nuances (the question of the title of the blog post as well as its contents as it tries to answer. Here’s a simple truth I’ve found about it though: It’s more than you think, but less than advertised in the end. A lot of the most complex mathematics is abstracted away from the average or even maybe not so average developer. This I would say is a loose guideline more than a rule of course, there are exceptions I will say though that what I have learned is that a typical thing we need to be better at as developers (myself included) is math related to date/time and currency. These are actually quite complex problems that even the best developers get wrong