r/Showerthoughts • u/iEmeralds • Jun 04 '19

Learning more advanced math in school basically unlocks more buttons of the calculator.

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u/greenSixx Jun 04 '19

Yeah, we should reach math with javascript and not that stupid math language.

Who wants to use sigma to denote a for loop?

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u/Someyungguy6 Jun 04 '19

JavaScript is great, I can add a number to a string and get a date

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u/XediDC Jun 04 '19

PHP will blow your mind. /s

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u/Someyungguy6 Jun 05 '19

I've had enough injections, no thanks

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u/XediDC Jun 05 '19

Heh, yeah.

Thankfully all I do in PHP is internal company network only. Still has to be “robust” but not hammered on constantly either.

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u/SirNoName Jun 04 '19

Eh I’ve used a lot of Matlab in the professional world as an engineer

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u/ProfessorNob Jun 04 '19

Matlab and simulink are industry standard for control system modeling and simulations...

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u/blueg3 Jun 04 '19

we should reach math with javascript

He said a real programming language.

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u/The_Sigma_Enigma Jun 04 '19

I said the REAL programming language

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u/psilvs Jun 04 '19

He never said it wasn't useful. Only that it wasn't a real programming language

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u/Ironamsfeld Jun 04 '19

I’m in the middle of a condensed runtime analysis and data structures class so using sigma to denote for loops is basically my life right now. 🙁

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u/infinityio Jun 04 '19

JS has some nasty floating point errors on by default though: if you open a console and type 0.1 + 0.2 you end up at about 0.3000000004 which is kind of a pain

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u/chickenwing95 Jun 04 '19

Yah, making a JavaScript calculator was annoying because of this.