in reply to Most Used/Useful Math skills

What math skills should you know that extremely useful/set you apart from other programmers

The ability to skip read through the goals, methodologies, philosophies, proofs, formulaic notation and bibliographies and other similar BS in 'formal' papers in order to extract the 5% of content that actually useful.

Its taken me 30+ years to get half good at it; and I still wish I was better, but I'm getting there. (I'll just have got really good and I'll kick the bucket; but that's ... er ... maybe not :)

With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
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