Mathematical minimalism
The Endeavour 2026-04-13
Summary:
Andrzej Odrzywolek recently posted an article on arXiv showing that you can obtain all the elementary functions from just the function and the constant 1. The following equations, taken from the paper’s supplement, show how to bootstrap addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division from the elm function. See the paper and supplement for how to obtain […]
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