tbf all good programmers are good at math. Not classic arithmetic necessarily, but at the very least applied calculus. It's a crime how many people used a mathematical discipline every day, but don't think they're "good at math" because of how lazer focused the world is on algebra, geometry and trig as being all that "math" is.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 16 points 10 hours ago (14 children)

Serious question; how does Calculus apply to programming? I’ve never understood.

[–] missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

that can't be right. maybe they meant lambda calculus? programmers are definitely good at applied logic, graph theory, certain kinds of discrete math etc. but you're not whipping out integrals to write a backend.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 13 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Any function that relies on change over a domain is reliant on concepts that are fundementally calculus. Control systems, statistical analysis, data science, absolutely everything in networking that doesn't involve calling people on the phone to convince them to give you their password, that is all calculus.

[–] expr@programming.dev 6 points 9 hours ago

Many things that work with time series data use calculus all the time. Both derivatives and integrals are very useful in that context: derivatives being the rate of change at some particular time step, and integrals being the sum of the changes across a range of time steps.

There's a pretty wide range of applications.

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