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Practical applications of math are about getting answers, and unless you do math at university, that's probably all you'll ever do. But the problem is that if y
by brazzy 12y ago
Practical applications of math are about getting answers, and unless you do math at university, that's probably all you'll ever do. But the problem is that if you don't learn to understand how the math works and why it gets you correct answers, you're unlikely to spot mistakes and likely to accept misleading reasoning and calculations at face value.
- jowiar 12y agoFor me, practical applications of math are about understanding how a system works. More often than not, it really doesn't matter what the exact number is that comes out the end (the precision is often beyond my ability to act), but rather the understanding that well, if I take this action, these other things are going to happen at about this magnitude, so I need to offset them by doing something else, etc. etc.