I guess it depends who you are talking about. Computer Scientists are generally great at math, but it doesn't mean they are good programmers. A good programmer has style: from how the code looks, to how it is arranged, test, regressed... to how defensive the code is to soft-failures. I've worked with spectacular computer scientists who wrote compiler kernels, but their code looked like a big pile of... well, you get it.
In general, you don't need to be exceptional at math for doing programming. A basic understanding of arithmetic is sufficient.
Okay, perhaps if you work with numerical analysis on daily basis, or doing type theory/lambda calculus/any theoritical computer science stuffs.
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Also, on a relational note, what kind of “and” are you using?
‘Could be my isolation talking, but the further I look into this comment the more dad/logic jokes I see. Caveat: am dad.
Eh hem... I will see myself out.