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Exact same thing here. I'm actually having a moment realizing this is more common than I thought. Everyone always acted like it was the easiest thing in the wor
by ergot_vacation 6y ago
Exact same thing here. I'm actually having a moment realizing this is more common than I thought. Everyone always acted like it was the easiest thing in the world (even the ones that hated math) and that I must have brain damage or something. But to this day, if you put a gun to my head, I could not tell you what 7*8 was in any less that a minute (and possible not at all without some paper to work it out).
- cutemonster 6y agoYou don't happen to work with software anyone of you? I wonder if this "math dyslexia" has caused any tricky situations at the workplace
- drewzero1 6y agoI failed tons of those timed tests in school and have gotten better at basic math only somewhat recently, by practicing with a calculator. I don't work with software per se but I do write some software in the course of my work, and haven't had any issues from my difficulty with math. (At least, not since having to re-take Calculus and reshuffle my major back in college.) One of the reasons I originally decided I wanted to work with computers was that (in a general sense) I could tell the computer to do the math for me. I always loved playing with calculators and seeing what I could get them to do.
- cutemonster 6y agoOk :-) thanks for the reply
- fermentation 6y agoI’m an engineer (embedded systems and graphics) and it has never once been an issue.
- cutemonster 6y agoGraphics? Hmm when I was coding 3d graphics there was matrix multiplication and rotation etc, makes me wonder if comparatively hard things like that, work fine, although some of the easy things don't? And someone with dyslexia can write an amazingly good novel, I presume.
- ergot_vacation 6y agoI only program as a hobby, but the math issues have certainly never caused problems there, which I've always been a little amused by, since everyone seems to assume amazing math is needed for programming. I DO comment the living hell out of my code though, due to memory/concentration issues, just so I can remember what each chunk does 15 minutes later.
- cutemonster 6y agoYes maths is rarely needed (unless one creates a 3d game engine or a neutral net implementation or airplanes for example) > comment the living hell out of my code I like comments too, the "Why" type of comments :-)