Level of maths knowledge

[Clippy]

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I dont think anyone here has a BSc Mathematics or indeed a MSC Mathematics

No one has got a dedicated maths degrreQUOTE]


ahem....

Ban him.

[Sockpuppet]

Depends what you mean...

My maths is spot on. Can I do calculus or other "theory" maths. No.

Can I design you a building and do stress calcs on racking or produce a site storage stratergy..yes.

After leaving education your maths adapts to what you want.

[2uk]

The way I see it , the whole point of having advanced math and stuff in schools is so that a few from the group ( the ones who don’t get girls ) will learn these in order to prove themselves something. These geeks will later become developers or scientists and so human’s knowledge will be preserved.
It is simply you don’t remember stuff you don’t practice.

I can’t remember how to divide complex numbers without a calculator. Still I am readying to start learning C sharp.


The universities are time-wasting – money –sucking machine anyway. That is why Gates quit.

[DS23]

strange. i don't have a maths qualification. well, ok, i probably do have a nasty grade of cse. quite how nasty i really don't recall. it was a long time ago.

anyway the point is that unlike many of you who seem to have studied it and don't use it i rejected maths in education but have to use a fair bit in my work. not newtonian or anything mad but i do need to work with averages, percentages, differences, statistics, alpha and beta trending 'n stuff.

i'm still a maths dunce but not been rumbled yet. i suspect that this is because the vast majority of clients are even more acutely dunced than me.

[alreadypacked]

When I was diagnosed with dyslexia they said I had extremes of ability, genius level on some tests below average on others. For maths they said I had the ability to understand very complex mathematical problems with the inability to subtract two, two digit numbers in my head.

[2uk]

When I was diagnosed with dyslexia they said I had extremes of ability, genius level on some tests below average on others. For maths they said I had the ability to understand very complex mathematical problems with the inability to subtract two, two digit numbers in my head.

Well. If you look nice who gives a ... about that

[Diver]

I left school at fifteen with no formal qualifications, it took me two years to realize what an idiotic move that had been, and twenty years to gain the quals that I now have.
Maths is not one of them, although I use math a considerable ammount, especially in the marine side of the business for displacement and stress calc's.
I have been blessed with a high IQ but cursed with low common sense.
If I had the time now I would love to go back to uni and study math and physics.

[VectraMan]

A at A-level maths, and then more maths as part of a computing/electronics degree.

Doing graphics software has meant needing to do trigonometry. I had to do something with matrices, but had to get somebody else in my team to tell me how. It's scary how fast you forget stuff.

Even worse than that, I went to an Intel developer conference when MMX first came out, (near Heathrow - anybody else?). I did the MMX assembler course, and they asked us to write a vector dot product. I put my hand up and spent 5 minutes trying to explain to the German teaching the course that whilst I had no trouble understanding MMX assembler, I didn't know what dot product meant. Eventually somebody else on the course took pity on me and told me what the calculation was. The programming was easy.

Basically everything from the final year of O-level onwards was a complete waste of time.

[smee.again]

DId a lot of maths and electronics in the Army......

[Buffoon]

I have been blessed with a high IQ but cursed with low common sense.

A common affliction.