How can people code without knowing math ? Atleast to the extent of knowing the value of PI? ( I am not asking for a 10 decimal places value ..How about just 2 decimal places )
I'm with you there. I didn't mean to imply that programmers don't need to know math. To the contrary, I find it very useful and keep a graphing calculator on my desk. I was just pointing out that knowing the value of PI isn't strictly necessary for this example, because by writing a quick script, one can determine the behavior of the sequence and figure out an appropriate stopping condition. The rest of it is just translating a formula into code.
How many other constants have you memorized? e? phi? sqrt(2)? and you know all those to 5 decimals? When I conduct interviews I try really really hard to set aside the things that I know and give candidates an opportunity to tell (or show) me what they know. Someone not having a constant memorized is not a show stopper, as I am after the logical thought processs.
The blogger is to be frank an absolute dumb nut! He is not losing more viewers. In fact he is gaining them. If people upvote your video and it goes onto a social network site that is outside of your "youtube channel" that just means that you are turning on automatic sharing. Ofcourse, an option that lets the user who is upvoting to choose whether he wants to share it or not is all that is needed.
If he does share it, that just gives your video and even greater probability of going viral. Why cant content publishers get this?
