On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Eleanor McHugh
<eleanor / games-with-brains.com> wrote:
> On 17 Nov 2009, at 19:55, Gregory Brown wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale / gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> When I was a young lad, it used to be that young programmers took a
>>> semester long course on numerical analysis, which started with, and
>>> continuously came back to dealing with the properties of floating
>>> point numbers.
>>>
>>> I guess that doesn't happen much anymore.
>>
>> I took numerical analysis, but ironically, only after dropping my CS
>> major and going for a math major.
>> Also, I'll content that abstract algebra was about the best course
>> I've taken for helping the way I think about programming.
>>
>> Too bad the CS students are all too busy trying to get their Java/C++
>> projects to compile :)
>
> Never hire a computer scientist if you can get a maths, physics or philosophy grad instead ;)

Don't want to hijack (these are all good qualities by the way, but
with a sardonic tone :)

Maths grad: F equals MA if the axioms are founded
Phys grad: F does in "fact" equal MA no matter what
Philosophy grad: F equals MA only when it must
Engineering grad: F sometimes equals MA, but that's not the crux of the issue