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On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 22:49:07 -0600, Charles Richmond
<nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote:

>On 2/24/2018 8:35 AM, JimP wrote:
>> On 24 Feb 2018 08:29:08 GMT, Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sat, 2018-02-24, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>>> On 2018-02-23, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com <hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Personally, I think all programmers, whatever their specialty,
>>>>> should have a solid background in algebra.  IMHO, if someone
>>>>> is weak in algebra, they'll be a weak programmer.
>>>
>>> That's the stance my university took, around 1990.  You didn't get to
>>> do computer science until after some hefty maths courses (where most
>>> of the students dropped off).
>>>
>>>> Better still, a solid background in logic.
>>>
>>> I think of it as having a talent for working within systems of rules.
>>> Maths is a good way to exercise that talent.  I suppose board games
>>> are too, but I'm a lousy player.
>>>
>>> But I'm not sure ... nowadays I tend to think of programming as a
>>> craft.  I never used much of my formal training, and some of the best
>>> programmers I've worked with had none.
>>>
>>>> Any programmer worth his salt should know about De Morgan's theorem,
>>>> whether he knows its name or not.
>>>
>>> I had forgotten the name, but yes.
>>>
>>> /Jorgen
>> 
>> I looked it up... never used it in any programming class, and never
>> used it to repair a computer. I had to take a math minor so I probably
>> had it in algebra. Don't remember it from the calculus classes I took,
>> I have gladly forgotten my calculus.
>> 
>
>not (A and B) = (not A) or (not B)
>
>not (A or B) = (not A) and (not B)
>
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Morgan%27s_laws
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_De_Morgan

Yes, sets. But we didn't use them in my programming classes, algebra
and calculus yes.