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lugaoyesterday at 3:41 PM1 replyview on HN

Exactly! If you didn't strictly limit the operator's complexity, you could just smuggle a Turing machine in via bitwise logic and turn the whole thing into a parlor trick. The beauty here is that eml(x,y) is a pure, continuous analytical function with no hidden branching whatsoever.

To clarify my earlier point: the author isn't trying to build a practical calculator or generate human-readable algebra. Using exp and ln isn't a cheat code because the goal is purely topological. The paper just proves that this massive, diverse family of continuous math can be mapped perfectly onto a uniform binary tree, without secretly burying a state machine inside the operator.


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gus_massayesterday at 3:52 PM

> The beauty here is that eml(x,y) is a pure, continuous analytical function with no hidden branching whatsoever.

They use the complex version of logarithm, that has a lot of branching problems.

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