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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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      • force@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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

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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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      • force@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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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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      • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Once I get my mechanical computer to run crysis we’ll see who’s laughing.

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      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Wouldn’t you also need to know physics in order to make a mechanical computer?

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      • loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What kind of argumentation is this? Are we talking about mechanical engineering or computer science? Please don’t bent reality the way it fits your shape.

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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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