Mathematics

Just curious if anyone if the networking field uses math in regards to trig and cal. Im taking trig over the summer and some of it i get and some of it i don't, i actually started this class forgetting most of my algebra because its been only 3 years since i took it and haven't used it since. But i would venture to guess the same thing will happen once i get pass trig and cal. Iv used binary in networking, and in regards to my first and second class of c++ i see allot of math being used, so i see the importance of it in that respect but since i don't plan on being a programmer, will i ever need to know this stuff in the networking field.
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Knowing math is very handy if you are a programmer working in a small business that cannot hire mathematicians, economists, data scientists, etc. to do the complex math that may be required by an application. Knowing math is also handy to help a programmer transform the designs created by a mathematician to actual code. This level of skill is only needed in research projects attempting to create innovative (i.e., non-COTS) solutions.
However, being fluent in mathematics is not necessary these days to be a programmer. I earned my paycheck as a programmer for over two decades and math is my worst subject. There were pieces of some projects that I could not work on, sure, but that was only a very fractional percentage of the programming work available to do. If you find it pleasurable to eat, sleep, and breathe logic (specifically propositional and predicate calculus) then you might be a programmer (or a network engineer
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