The same way you can write an if statement without understanding of math. i.e. You can't, but we don't label it math, because it is not the invention of new mat

The same way you can write an if statement without understanding of math. i.e. You can't, but we don't label it math, because it is not the invention of new mathematical concepts. Only people sitting in ivory towers doing things with math that the world has never seen before are considered to know math in the eyes of most programmers, it seems.