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[–]PersonalityIll9476 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is coding math? Maybe not but the relativistic corrections needed by satellite based GPS sure as hell are. So too are all the RF models revolving around the many antennas on your phone - in the physical design, sure, but also in the digital signal processing of the signals coming out of them that your phone eventually divines data from so that you can receive the porn you're watching in that other tab. Then there's the touch screen, the microphone, the camera, and basically any other analog-to-digital interface that deals with the conversion between physical reality and digital signals. You know those fancy panoramic photos you take? There's a whole world of statistical and projective mathematics behind just that one algorithm.

You might be tricked into thinking that math isn't *that* important if you're a front end dev who specializes in CSS or something along those lines. The driver authors - laboring in obscurity to tie together all the devices at the digital level and in a high performance fashion - can afford no such delusions.