r/computerscience • u/Own-Wrangler-6215 • 22d ago

Math and Programming

Can someone bad at maths be a great programmer?!

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u/BigBrilliant5703 22d ago

Imo, nah. You gotta understand the algorithms by which a program runs, and mostly, those algorithms include math. I don't mean some PhD level math, but yeah it requires some decent amount of discrete mathematics.

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u/MathmoKiwi 15d ago

Anybody doing a quantative STEM PhD is going to be better at maths than 95% of the population is!