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There is nothing strange your about your writing / speaking pattern at all. 
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"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Interesting. The only math I ever used as a software developer is some pretty basic statistics. And I hated statistics as a student 
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When I had to use statistics I understood how much I didn't understand in high school. And I was top of the class in statistics!
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 even the 'basic' statistics are beyond our managers.... 
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Every time I'm asked to do some math, I always start at 1+1 and work my way from there.
I always like math at school, got good grades even if I was never really good at it, (or felt like it).
Anecdotal, I crapped a test on Fourier Transform in one of our Theoretical Computer Science course, We had to do something with it to reduce some equations, but I indexed one of the sequence at 1 instead of 0, it never converged.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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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[^] 
"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
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Actually, it only makes sense if you're speaking Visual Basic. In any sensible language, 2 & 2 == 2. 
"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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You're right about the usage of 'and' instead of 'plus' by americans. Considering this, how do you come to "2 & 2 (which is 2 plus 2) = 22" ? I don't get it. I might be slow this morning...
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Since I can't figure out superscripting, please read B^2 as B squared ...
Let A = B
Multiply both sides by B: AB = B^2
Add B^2 to each side: AB + B^2 = 2B^2
Subtract 2AB from each side: B^2 - AB = 2B^2 -2AB
(B^2 - AB ) = 2*(B^2 - AB)
1 = 2
QED.
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Rich Leyshon wrote: Subtract 2AB from each side: B^2 - AB = 2B^2 -2AB
Issue found
I'm doing a lot of these mistakes anyway.
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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Easier if you say if
(B^2 - AB) = 2*(B^2 - AB)
then given
B^2 = AB
you have
1 * (0) = 2 * (0)
giving
0 = 0
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Yep, I told you I was making a lot of mistakes? I also added a proof.
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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Rich Leyshon wrote: Since I can't figure out superscripting, please read B^2 as B squared ...
Surround with <sup></sup> like:
B2
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Makes sense, perhaps I should have tried that ... 
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Division by zero will do that to you.
BB-AB = 0
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It will depend on what you work with.
But I think people that are bad at maths probably make bad programmers, since logics is so important.
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Ooh, signal processing? That is cool.
Every day is a learning day... recently I had to use Welford standard deviation to calculate a running standard deviation. I did not even know that was possible without storing all of the numbers.
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Brushless motor control, which is signal processing (especially when factoring in PWM sinusoids and EM emission control).
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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I think a lot of the time maths is no necessary in much of what we do as developers, but having a mind that is good at maths does seem to make people better developers.
Perhaps it's something to do with being able to work with abstractions or recognise logical patterns.
P.S. I do not have a naturally good mathematical mind.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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It all depends on the field in which you end up. I think all programmers (who do it as a full-time job) end up acquiring expertise in a domain that is not, strictly speaking, related at all to programming. Mathematics would be one of those domains.
Personally, I got shafted when I was accepted to university, provided I took a chemistry course, which they had decided was a prerequisite for computer science - chemistry was the only science course I did not take while in high school.
To make a long story short, the schedule for that chemistry course conflicted with my other courses, and neither teachers nor university administration gave a damn; I dropped out during the first semester and went to college for 3 years instead.
Decades later, I've never had a job that required any sort of chemistry, and I certainly don't feel like I've missed out on anything.
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I wish to meet all of the people who say "soil research is useless to programmers."
My client just called me and told me that their indicative beet cyst nematode research does not display the eggs per larva per 100 ml correctly.
Also, if I can create a report showing yearly infections of rostochiensis, pallida, or both.
Meloidogyne is going pretty well though.
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As a business programmer I don't use a lot of math in my code, but I do have to understand a lot of math so I can design the appropriate algorithms for the problems I'm solving.
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