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Comment author: fowlertm 12 January 2015 04:35:52PM 3 points [-]

My two cents: I studied math pretty intensively on my own and later started programming. To my pleasant surprise, the thinking style involved in math transmitted almost directly over into programming. I'd imagine that the inverse is also true.

Comment author: [deleted] 12 January 2015 04:52:32PM 2 points [-]

Indeed, many people cross forward and backward between the two.