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I am almost certain that Ballmer did not take Math 55, though Bill Gates did (and supposedly got a ‘B’). Do you have a source citation for that? You don’t have to take Math 55 (a freshman course with 10–20 students per year) to graduate with high honors in Math/Economics. (Which isn’t to say that Ballmer is a slouch: he is clearly very sharp, and was even as an undergraduate.)


This is the only corroborating evidence that I could find: http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=4618

For some reason I had it in my head that Bill and Steve took Math 55 together.


They're both of the same age and both entered Harvard in 1973, but all it says on Gates' Wiki page is:

> While at Harvard, he met Steve Ballmer, who later succeeded Gates as CEO of Microsoft.




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