• Question: how much of your job is maths?

    Asked by face534trow26 to Caroline on 19 Mar 2026.
    • Photo: Caroline Roche

      Caroline Roche answered on 19 Mar 2026:

      Not much – about 5-10% direct mathematics. You do use maths principles for other work for data analysis. Most of my work is done on a computer so you don’t have to do much maths in your head, you just need to be comfortable with numbers and explain how some values are calculated.

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  • Photo: Tom S

    Tom S commented on :

    The most important part of my job is talking with people and making sure everything is done to a good standard. There is some maths, of course, but it’s mostly mixed with programming. Understanding the maths helps me spot when something goes wrong and figure out why it happened.