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[Discuss] OT: Do CS grads need calculus?
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- From: nobluspam5476 at penguinmail.com (R. Luoma)
- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 13:44:46 -0400
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On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 11:11:32 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Ronan <sronan at panix.com> wrote: > "Do CS grads need calculus?" > http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/2015/04/sort/time_rev/page/1/ <silly> As linux/unix programmers, many of us have to deal with zombie processes and, as Colin Adams has shown in "Zombies and Calculus" [1], calculus can be useful in dealing with zombies. </silly> While I rarely use calculus directly, I find the concepts of integration and derivatives useful in some of my computer programming. However, as others have already pointed out, calculus does not seem to be necessary for many types of programming. [1] http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10315.html
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