math? im confused...pls save me

[mainstream]

hi...i really hate math since my elementary years...i started so bad that i brought it up as i grew...i want to know what are the complete list on which math can be applied to programmers?maybe a list from basic to advance topics will be appreciated...thanks...

[bathurst_guy]

I don't really understand your question, but math is used absolutely everywhere in programming. If you were good at algebra you would pick up programming pretty quickly.

[pikkles]

i dont get ur question...

[scragar]

you need to understand (completely) Fermat's last theorem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat's_Last_Theorem), Euler's theorem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler's_Theorem), Cauchy's theorem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy's_theorem_(group_theory)) and Sylow's theorem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylow's_theorem) before you can even make a start.

[/sarcasm]

really asside from a basic understanding of alegebra that kinda falls apart once you start using assignment operators that use the ='s sign you don't need to worry about anything much to do with maths. You will need to be able to add and subtract proberly as well, if only to make sure your %'s always come to under 100 on a webpage(99% is a good idea, but I prefare 95% with a 2% margin).

[harrisjw]

You'll need to understand binary of course and hexidecimal, but those are pretty easy. And you'll need to know the quirks of the language or app in use...precedence of operations. And then understand that some things aren't intuitive...trig functions will be returned in radians rather than degrees, the difference between stdev and stdevp for statistics, and so on.

You also need to know that in all programs date and time are floating point numbers based upon that vendor's zero date....for MS it's jan 1, 1900 for Oracle it's something around 4000 BC, for Mumps it's in the year 1842.

you should also understand the memory requirements for the various ways of formating numbers...integers, floating, and storing numerics as text...as with social security numbers and zip codes.

[boxxertrumps]

So in short, if you really hate math you can't get anywhere in this field, many doors are closed to you.

But if you only hate it, and actually are quite good with math this doesn't apply.

[harrisjw]

I don't understand the concept of hating math...you may hate the work involved, but hating a universal language seems irrational to me. It's like hating the chair leg you stubbed your toe on.

Generally people 'hate' math not because of math but because of poor teachers. The way past that is to teach it to yourself.