The funny thing is how much of the 1960s "new math" that was derided at the time for being irrelevant is now super applicable in computing as soon as you scratch the surface just a little bit more than average. From your link: "abstract algebra, modular arithmetic, matrices, symbolic logic, Boolean algebra, and other super-mathy stuff they might never need"
Even in Lehrer's song, the textbook wants us to do the calculation in base 8, and that's amusing and surprising and... being familiar with octal helps me in minor ways on probably a weekly basis. Being familiar with other bases more generally, even more frequently.
