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by bee_rider 1360 days ago
Informally, big-O and limits have a similar smell to them, calc might have helped get some wheels turning in your head for that.

I do recall taking a "probability in CS" as an electrical engineering student -- it was pretty mind-blowing to me the extent to which the CS students did not like to talk about any continuous math. It makes sense, though, these are different specialties after all.