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Many people, when they say math, mean continuous math.

At work, my colleagues are almost entirely statisticians and actuaries, and I sometimes joke that my only math course at university was Calculus 1. I have of course done lots more math, but it’s all CS type stuff like logic and discrete structures like graphs and trees which is a very different world from continuous stuff.



These cultural differences even determine how you eat your corn: http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2010/08/analysis-vs-algebra-pre...

(I know this is weak evidence that has been debunked by stronger studies.)


Discrete math it's far easier to grasp than continous curves under calculus.




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