Good find. It cites a paper from 1935: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.21.... | Hacker News

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		ano-ther 18 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: All elementary functions from a single binary oper... Good find. It cites a paper from 1935: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.21.5.252 Here is a bit more: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/57465/can-we-unify-additi...

SideQuark 18 days ago [–]

Ooh, that 2nd link has a nice construction by Terry Tao giving a clear way to show infinitely many such functions exist for pretty much any set of operations.

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