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If you're learning math for career reasons rather than just pure curiosity, engineering is the main/possibly only place you'd use it besides statistical analysis.



Yeah that sounds about right. I was more musing about the philosophical boundary between math and engineering (math being a creative pursuit and engineering being about outcomes).

I can't quite pin it down, like with a definition, but I'm tempted to say that if it has a linter it's not math anymore, even if it once was.




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