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>> As far as I can tell, the majority of people in the world have jobs
>> like... Telemarketing. Driving trucks. Working in an office doing
>> filing. Fitting central heating systems. Hotel receptionists.
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> Yes, the majority of people do a wide variety of jobs :-)
More precisely: The majority of people are in service jobs. (At least,
in the UK.) Used to be manufacturing, now it's service.
As far as I can tell, higher math is more relevant to design and
engineering, which is quite rare.
>> None of these seem to require knowledge of calculus. In fact, jobs
>> that *do* require such knowledge are seemingly so absurdly rare that I
>> almost find it difficult to believe they exist.
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> I'd say most Chartered Engineers would have used calculus in their job
> at some point or another, there's 180000 of them in the UK. Call that
> absurdly rare if you want.
What's a chartered engineer? And how do you know how many there are?
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