• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I’m not entirely sure of that. You can’t have comp sci without algebra and potentially calculus. I could see a society that developed all three fields before they codified Physics

      • force@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        How do you have computer science without calculus? Calculus is literally necessary for computer science, otherwise it’d just be like… shitty statistics with a little programming

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          4 months ago

          Care to expand? Things like complexity theory and type theory, for example, have nothing to do with calculus

          • force@lemmy.world
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            4 months ago

            In general, a lot of the stuff computer science shares with data science uses calculus, a lot of the statistics too, but also visuals and modelling other sciences (e.g. simulations) use calculus heavily. I recall utilising vector calc a decent amount when working with Vulkan, for example

        • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          It would be inelegant as all fuck, but you could get away with just algebra, there are comp sci courses that only need algebra as the foundation.

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            4 months ago

            as far as i can tell, the ones that do that are usually just programming courses with “computer science” slapped onto the title. but i havent exactly gone to many colleges so i don’t have the experience to say so.

    • theneverfox@pawb.social
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      4 months ago

      Sure you can. Physics is describing what is, computer science is building what could be

      The two things require very little overlap. Even physics systems in video games don’t use real physics - it just feels better when you fudge it