[aragilar]

That's not what I'm talking about. There are legal frameworks about how to compute something (which I only vaguely know exist, so I know enough that I personally should not be implementing any of this without significant outside input and expertise), and if you do it wrong we get deaths. This has been a major issue in at least two countries (the UK with the Post Office and Australia with Robodebt). I'd argue its more elitist thinking "I can program numbers into a computer so I can do anything involving numbers", rather than referring to non-software-developer experts.

On needing years in college to learn this: the "weirdness" of floats should be covered (it was for me) in high school science, and is also drummed in in first year science labs. Any time you actually need to work with numbers (rather than saying checking whether a group is abelian), you're dealing with how to compute and these rules predate electronics.