Generally not. My last project involved building a framework in which scientists could run calculations for certain types of risk. A prototype built by some of said scientists involved code like seen in the SO question. After looking at the types of calculations being done, we figured out that most of the equations that were used were similar and could be generalized. We also moved all the coefficients and parameters for all the equations into configuration files. I suspect that a thorough evaluation of this code would reveal something similar as in my case.