Yeah, I (a millennial) experienced the no calculator era, but I have no recollection of people talking about needing to be good at math to use a computer.
But, I fell like that would be more accurate in the 80s and early 90s when PCs were just becoming a thing.
A friend of mine built an interactive card-flipping in, I don’t know, I think silverlight back in the day, and did all the 3D computation manually. While I stared at him in disbelief.
That seems like a more recent development. I think at least another generation and a half got in before that
Yeah, I (a millennial) experienced the no calculator era, but I have no recollection of people talking about needing to be good at math to use a computer.
But, I fell like that would be more accurate in the 80s and early 90s when PCs were just becoming a thing.
Mostly true. I have actually used some calculus (derivatives and integrals) to write some interesting queries for Prometheus metrics.
But that’s pretty niche.
A friend of mine built an interactive card-flipping in, I don’t know, I think silverlight back in the day, and did all the 3D computation manually. While I stared at him in disbelief.
I think that was somewhere around 2010?