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Forget Math to Become a Great Computer Scientist?
Coryoth writes "A new book is trying to claim that computer science is better off without maths. The author claims that early computing pioneers such as Von Neumann and Alan Turing imposed their pure mathematics background on the field, and that this has hobbled computer science ever since. He rejects the idea of algorithms as a good way to think about software. Can you really do computer science well without mathematics? And would you want to?"
Correction, make that minus one.
You were off by 19787949 - 1 = 19787948 in your calculation.
However aren't they all integers, and therefore morally equivalent?
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Just as porn relies on math, math (or at least image compression research) relies on porn.
It's a symbiotic relationship.
No maths means more girls. Hey, I'm all for it.
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I bet you couldn't identify a NP hard problem if it came up and ate all your CPU cycles.
Bah -- "more", "less" -- these concepts are so mathematically antiquated.
Ha! I guess that's why I like to see all the variable declarations at the top of a function, and some kind of comment above that. I've also seen recipes with goto statements. I guess you could call it a spaghetti recipe? :-P
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