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I do this all the time. There's nothing at all weird or embarrassing about it. 10 years ago I was sure I'd remember and have an intuition for the trig identities, but I'm still looking them up every time now.

Also, even in pretty advanced CS (at least in my field, security and, particularly, cryptography), most of the nuts-and-bolts math is high school math.




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