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      1. I've only ever used calculus once in a program, for some game physics (needed a tangent line and computed a derivative). It is absolutely *not required* for professional software engineering. @shanselman/1480267257267716098
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      Even then, it's really hard to actually to a derivative or integral abstractly in a computer. In my use case I only ever wrote the calc on paper and understood the concepts. The actual computer calculation very much cheated by just computing a very small slope, no derivative.
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    Of course that was also a game a built from scratch, a practical situation would use a game engine that would do most of this for you. So unless you're building a hard core physics engine, even that use case is unlikely to come up.
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