>>Please program in more days, read the subject of one of Peter's unread e-mails. As the replacement for Noah, the company's veteran programmer, Peter was starting to get used to strange-sounding emails requesting simple hacks and tweaks to applications used by their clients. He opened up the message ...
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>>Hey Peter -- Could you add more days into our transaction age report? Not sure if that makes any sense, but Noah had to do this whenever we wanted to run against longer periods.
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>>After a little bit of investigating, Peter found out why they were running out of days ...
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>>http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Got_Time_0x3f_.aspx
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>From time to time, I get reminded that there are a lot of programmers out there who not just aren't mathematicians, but fall anywhere in the scale between "not too good at maths" and "don't even think that maths could be used to solve this one".

... and the scary bit is there occasions where some of the math-challenged programmers are the ones that have a degree in mathematics... I'd also run into some mechanical engineers that have very little "feel" for geometry (i.e. to the point that I was able to spot obvious errors in dimensions, or problems where mechanism would bind or not move as required).