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by adeelk 5133 days ago
> why is mathematical and logical thinking, common to programmers, so rare?

What evidence is there that programmers have better mathematical and logical thinking?

> I've tried teaching many people the difference between "8" and (the literal value) 8...it never seems to stick until you write and run a simple piece of code to test it out.

This is unrelated to both mathematics and logic.