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From: Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org>
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Subject: Re: What do they teach in school today?
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Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:

> BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> writes:
> <snip>
>> went for a CS major,
> <snip>
>> me and Calculus aren't really friends.
>
> That's interesting.  In the UK I think it would be unlikely that
> calculus was required for CS.

Probably most of the decent courses would hope for candidates to already
have A-level maths which would include calculus?

-- Mark