Originally Posted by
stdreb27
http:///forum/post/2990116
LOL wow that looks like a fun major, if you like math. seriously I'm going to start asking you my math questions now.
In practice, it's actually heavy in Computer Science and application architecture. Typically the real math problems have been previously worked and need to be automated in the most efficient way possible. Sometimes the math is trivial but combining steps and optimizing solutions becomes imparative when it has to be performed trillions of times a day.
An easy to understand example would be finding the average daily balance of 100 million checking accounts. The straight forward math is simple. Determine the daily balance for each day, add them up, and divide by the number of days. That's very inefficient when you try to do it for 100 million accounts in the latter part of December.