You might be surprised how deeply math is connected to what you're doing! It sounds like you're doing some visual reasoning with decision trees, which means yo

You might be surprised how deeply math is connected to what you're doing! It sounds like you're doing some visual reasoning with decision trees, which means you're doing computer science (understanding the execution of an algorithm) using the same intuitive geometric understanding that is extremely effective in computational complexity theory (drawing the evaluation of a sequence of function calls, for example, we can see that it's going to take up a certain amount of space, possibly growing with n in two different dimensions, for example, indicating n^2 growth by purely visual reasoning). It's been trendy in mathematics for a while to disparage geometric reasoning as non-rigorous (which, to be clear, it can be), and even to regard anything that's not purely algebraic as non-mathematical, which is a shame. You can certainly do mathematical reasoning without it being algebraic, rigorous, formalized, or written down.