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• RGB3x3@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can’t have computer science without physics.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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

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    • force@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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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      • Miaou@jlai.lu ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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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    • loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do you really think people could make programmable microchips and processing units before they figured out physics?

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      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, but mechanical concerns mputwrs existed before microchips. They just weren’t terribly useful

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  • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨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

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