> I didn't really "get" it until I started programming and learning stats.
I had a similar experience. I wasn't particularly good at math and struggled a bit with algebra until I started programming.
I had something I wanted to solve, and I found out I needed to convert between one ratio to another ratio, and I couldn't figure out how. Then I realized I could just compute a percentage and use that. After all a ratio is a measure of something relative to a whole and percentage would tell you, well, the percentage of the whole, and I had memorized the formulas from going to and from percent.
So I wrote the code for this, but staring at the code it suddenly was so obvious that the division by 100 on the first line would cancel with the multiplication by 100 on the second line.
That was my eureka moment. Algebra suddenly made sense, and math in general became a whole lot easier.
I had a similar experience. I wasn't particularly good at math and struggled a bit with algebra until I started programming.
I had something I wanted to solve, and I found out I needed to convert between one ratio to another ratio, and I couldn't figure out how. Then I realized I could just compute a percentage and use that. After all a ratio is a measure of something relative to a whole and percentage would tell you, well, the percentage of the whole, and I had memorized the formulas from going to and from percent.
So I wrote the code for this, but staring at the code it suddenly was so obvious that the division by 100 on the first line would cancel with the multiplication by 100 on the second line.
That was my eureka moment. Algebra suddenly made sense, and math in general became a whole lot easier.