I wish to meet all of the people who say "math is useless to programmers"
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And give them a day of my current job, for which I am rewieving trigonometry, Fourier transforms, Laplace transforms, studying Clarke's and Park's transforms and generaly banging my head against the whole mathematics syllabus I alread beaten into submission during my Engineering student days (which are long gone and the knowledge faded).
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
And that's the reason I don't have a job like yours. :laugh: My programming jobs have been all in the music industry, or now, banking. I use descrete maths and the occasional easy algebra. Like golf, Calculus in all its forms are great spectator sport, but I've little interest in actually playing the game.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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At least it sounds as if you have one of the rare development jobs which is actually interesting.
Meh, it's producing firmware for motors... with only a single application (maybe two). It's mostly engineering the system as to lower reaction times, improve thermal and power efficiency, reduce noise and EM emissions... Not the most interesting job I held but its perks are elsewhere (i.e. twice the pay and a third of commute distance).
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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And give them a day of my current job, for which I am rewieving trigonometry, Fourier transforms, Laplace transforms, studying Clarke's and Park's transforms and generaly banging my head against the whole mathematics syllabus I alread beaten into submission during my Engineering student days (which are long gone and the knowledge faded).
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
I was once asked to do a chi-square analysis. I still don't know how to do that. Not part of statistics for physics So, I just computed averages, which were good enough to get the job done.
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And give them a day of my current job, for which I am rewieving trigonometry, Fourier transforms, Laplace transforms, studying Clarke's and Park's transforms and generaly banging my head against the whole mathematics syllabus I alread beaten into submission during my Engineering student days (which are long gone and the knowledge faded).
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
Any developer who does not have a good grounding in Algebra will never go very far in their career...
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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The first thing I learnt about programming, way back in 1986, was the numerical solution of an equation by the Newton-Raphson method. Later on, implemented the computation of Bessel Functions, Hankel Transforms and solution of Integral Equations, all in Fortran.
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Maximilien wrote:
I always start at 1+1 and work my way from there
How hard could that possibly be? The Universe of Discourse : 1+1=2[^] :laugh:
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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2 & 2 = 22 2 + 2 = 4 Just saying. P.S. This only makes sense if you are speaking like an American. Many will use "and" instead of "plus" when adding.
Bond Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
Actually, it only makes sense if you're speaking Visual Basic. In any sensible language,
2 & 2 == 2. ;P
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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And give them a day of my current job, for which I am rewieving trigonometry, Fourier transforms, Laplace transforms, studying Clarke's and Park's transforms and generaly banging my head against the whole mathematics syllabus I alread beaten into submission during my Engineering student days (which are long gone and the knowledge faded).
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
Riiiight, I didn't use any math in all the DSP code I wrote for embedded audio devices. Or for the IEEEish floating point package I wrote for an industrial controller language (looong time ago!). Yep, didn't need math for any of it. About the only opinions from non-programmers I pay attention too are in regards to how an application looks and interacts with the user.
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And give them a day of my current job, for which I am rewieving trigonometry, Fourier transforms, Laplace transforms, studying Clarke's and Park's transforms and generaly banging my head against the whole mathematics syllabus I alread beaten into submission during my Engineering student days (which are long gone and the knowledge faded).
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
I have long said that, while I took 32 hours of college math (calculus, differential equations, and matrix algebra), I've since recycled that part of my brain to store old movie dialogue. Much more useful.
Software Zen:
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2 & 2 = 22 2 + 2 = 4 Just saying. P.S. This only makes sense if you are speaking like an American. Many will use "and" instead of "plus" when adding.
Bond Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere