Re: Dumbing down?
In the last episode, on Thursday 24 May 2007 23:57, Cor Gest wrote:
A better question might be, "what are the arguments for and against a
good understanding of maths being necessary to programming?
In stating the question this way, you presume there is no (good)
programming possible whithout math.
Cor
In which case how would you restate it to get rid of this presumption?
Jeff
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