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OK, this is really good news for me, because I haven’t taken a math class since I was a sophomore in high school which was in 1987-88. 

Coding Horror: Should Competent Programmers be “Mathematically Inclined”?

On the other hand, I have not found in practice that programmers need to be mathematically inclined to become great software developers. Quite the opposite, in fact. This does depend heavily on what kind of code you’re writing, but the vast bulk of code that I’ve seen consists mostly of the “balancing your checkbook” sort of math, nothing remotely like what you’d find in the average college calculus textbook, even.

A good part of the reason is because of some issues I had in school being ADHD which I reserve for discussions on my other blog.

I think in hindsight I would do well at math now that I’ve wrangled my “disabilities” into advantages it would just require that I go back to pre-college math. Not something I would look forward to doing.