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Questions about mathematical topics are allowed, but NO HOMEWORK HELP. Communities for general math and homework help should be firmly delineated just as they were on reddit.

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Random internet people explaining math better then math teacher (i.imgur.com)

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[–] beefcat 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It was never required in my school district, where the minimum requirement was Algebra 2.

But the popularity of this post kind of proves my point. There are a lot of programmers out there who readily understood the for loops on the right, but not the sigma notation on the left. Pretending their experience is invalid cuts us off from a potential avenue to help more people understand these concepts.