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Anesthesia. I calculate dosage, dilutions, hemodynamic parameters, etc. Many, many times a day.

So if someone elbows you accidentally when you're working out a dosage, will you end up giving the wrong one?

Have you elbowed an anesthesiologist?

Yes, especially to distracting and vindicative patients.

"Anesthesia". Well, add a new one to your list.

> What do you do, if I may ask? The only roles that I'd characterize as you describe are fixed income management and some actuarial roles

What? As a software engineer, I'm constantly doing mental math to determine things like "how much memory will this take up when the input size is X". Sure, Big O notation is nice for limits, but in real life, there are typical input ranges, and you have to do the calculation. Can I use a calculator? Maybe sure, but why would I?