Hello Guys, thanks for you answers Now I have a clearer idea of the mathematics in the kernel and I understand the views expressed, for now I will investigate more in the memory subsystem very thank you. El jue., 3 oct. 2019 a las 11:00, <kernelnewbies-request@kernelnewbies.org> escribió:

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1. Re: Do I need strong mathematical bases to work in the memory subsystem? (Ruben Safir) 2. Re: Do I need strong mathematical bases to work in the memory subsystem? (Valdis Kl=?utf-8?Q?=c4=93?=tnieks) 3. Re: Do I need strong mathematical bases to work in the memory subsystem? (Ruben Safir) 4. Re: Do I need strong mathematical bases to work in the memory subsystem? (Greg KH) 5. Re: Do I need strong mathematical bases to work in the memory subsystem? (Ruben Safir)

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Message: 1 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 21:47:42 -0400 From: Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> To: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org Subject: Re: Do I need strong mathematical bases to work in the memory subsystem? Message-ID: <919b3d12-5d7e-73f1-d53f-b6a8463bf50b@mrbrklyn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

On 9/30/19 1:06 AM, Valdis Kl?tnieks wrote:

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On Sun, 29 Sep 2019 17:48:43 -0500, CRISTIAN ANDRES VARGAS GONZALEZ said:

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Hello good morning, to be developed from the kernel do I need to have good math bases? I want to help in the ram memory subsystem and I have that doubt thank you. Depends what you mean by "strong math basics". You'll *definitely* need to understand decimal/hexadecimal/binary/octal and how to convert between them. Understanding algebra is useful.

If you've had some intro to complexity theory so you understand why an O(N^2) algorithm is usually worse than one that's O(N log N), that helps. Also, knowing enough computing theory to understand what a finite state machine is, and why to use one, and how to write code to implement one, is useful.

You *probably* don't need calculus or deep number theory or a lot of other pure math.

I've heard this for years and when I went back for my PhD and Masters degree in comp sci, I found out, low and behold, this is just not true.

If you hope to do anything that is not elementry, you need serious math for the algorithms, not to mention to complete the jobs being done.

Knowing math is the real key to unlocking to potential of the power of computational mathmatics.

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Message: 2 Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 23:35:52 -0400 From: "Valdis Kl=?utf-8?Q?=c4=93?=tnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> To: Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org Subject: Re: Do I need strong mathematical bases to work in the memory subsystem? Message-ID: <31773.1570073752@turing-police> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

On Wed, 02 Oct 2019 21:47:42 -0400, Ruben Safir said:

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I've heard this for years and when I went back for my PhD and Masters degree in comp sci, I found out, low and behold, this is just not true.

The question was specific to *kernel* development.

Look around. Does Linus have a PhD? How many people at the last Kernel Plumber's or Kernel Summit have PhDs?

I'm willing to bet that there's very few PhD's in CS listed in MAINTAINERS. And those that are, are probably coincidental...

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If you hope to do anything that is not elementry, you need serious math for the algorithms, not to mention to complete the jobs being done.

Knowing math is the real key to unlocking to potential of the power of computational mathmatics.

If you're doing that sort of mathematics *inside the kernel*, there's probably something wrong with your overall design.

Just sayin'.