Level of maths knowledge

[barely_pointless]

Love Maths/physica, but don't often get a chance to use it now, designed some pretty cool stuff for an IBB risk once, lots of old OLAP oracle forecasting and probabilities (gauss, aitkins - it's all packaged in functions now,) but most of all and a delight to really annoy these ar5e holes of accounts is to use matrices to calculate the interest component on cashflow (an iterative process or a simultaenous equation). gets em every time, and it's so simple it's beautiful.

Did a fair bit of acceleration/coefficient calculus on rate of change curves (pricing momentum, stock volume rate of change that sort of stuff), and my first ever project (get this) was producing logarithmic latent heat curve cooling graphs for a petfood company who sold to tescos!!!!!!

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I have my Arithmetic O Level....

[Cowboy Bob]

I did Quantum Mechanics as part of my 1st degree (seriously). Does that count?

Also, as part of my MSc in computing I used active shape modelling, hidden Markov models and n-dimension matrix transforms.

Don't use any of it in my job now though.

[smee.again]

Is that better than Arithmetic...I don't think so...

[Euro-commuter]

I have my Arithmetic O Level....

'Then perhaps you know the difference between mathematics and arithmetic?

[smee.again]

'Then perhaps you know the difference between mathematics and arithmetic?

Spelling?

[scooterscot]

crumbs so much brain power on this board you could light a light bulb...

[smee.again]

crumbs so much brain power on this board you could light a light bulb...

40w at most though!!!

[wendigo100]

What is your level of maths knowledge? And do you apply any of it to your job?

Very good and yes.

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

That's interesting, coming one of our younger members.

Basic calculus used to be part of the O-level syllabus. At its most basic, it's used to work out areas and slopes of non-linear shapes (like waveforms), which has applications throughout engineering (and in finance, but not many use it there).

At what age is it introduced now?

[The Lone Gunman]

I suspect that it depended on which exam board set the syllabus.

WJEC didn't have calculus as part of Maths O level.

It was part of Additional Maths O level though.

My then lady friend was doing Vectors & stuff at O level.

I was crap at maffs at skool. Only got a D at O level.
What annoyed me was when I got to college. Bloke next to me had straight A's in 9 subjects. I was better at all subjects, just that my school did all the hard sylabuses but his did all the easy ones.
Now when the CV's land who are you going to interview? Locals would know the schools, but......