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My favorite example of this is when an interviewer asked me about an algorithm. In the course of the problem it occurred to me, what I needed was to break down the input integer into two parts--two equal parts that could be multiplied together. I kept referring to these two parts as such.

After the interview he said I was clearly weak on math because I didn't know the definition of a square root. Something I did know (10 or so college math courses in linear algebra, calc etc) and was describing, but was at a loss for words.