How can calculus and linear algebra be useful to a system programmer? [closed]

Question

I found a website saying that calculus and linear algebra are necessary for System Programming.

System Programming, as far as I know, is about osdev, drivers, utilities and so on. I just can't figure out how calculus and linear algebra can be helpful on that. I know that calculus has several applications in science, but in this particular field of programming I just can't imagine how calculus can be so important.

The information was on this site: http://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-Programmer

Edit: Some answers here are explaining about algorithm complexity and optimization. When I made this question I was trying to be more specific about the area of System's Programming. Algorithm complexity and optimization can be applied to any area of programming not just System's Programming. That may be why I wasn't able to came up with such thinking at the time of the question.