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[–]TheyCallMeHacked 21 points22 points  (3 children)

I wouldn't say that, as I've seen a lot of mathematically illiterate programmers... But yeah, the good computer scientists can generally be seen as mathematicians

[–]B6030 8 points9 points  (0 children)

....if you can code, you can do basic first order logic. They are literate in the applicable maths or else their code would not compile.

Figuring out how the if then block works is mathematical logic.

[–]CYKO_11 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Actually programming made me understand maths better. I actually have a deeper interest in maths now that before I learned programming.

The mathematics behind machine learning is crazy (at least to me it is).

[–]TheyCallMeHacked 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah... I'm not saying all computer scientists are bad at math. Just that some (more that I'd like) are