> Routing is heavily based in graph theory, as far as I know, and so is actually fairly mathematical
I didn't write routing, I wrote router. Routing, figuring out what to send where, is just one part of what a router does.
> Memory management can also require a good bit of math.
Yes, but that part isn't the whole of the problem. It isn't even a large part of the problem. (Note that you quickly switched to a completely different problem from malloc to argue for a mathematical basis.)
Math is cool and important, but it often isn't the big problem.
I didn't write routing, I wrote router. Routing, figuring out what to send where, is just one part of what a router does.
> Memory management can also require a good bit of math.
Yes, but that part isn't the whole of the problem. It isn't even a large part of the problem. (Note that you quickly switched to a completely different problem from malloc to argue for a mathematical basis.)
Math is cool and important, but it often isn't the big problem.