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bzaxtoday at 3:00 AM1 replyview on HN

Well, once you've derived unary exp and ln you can get subtraction, which then gets you unary negation and you have addition.


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freehorsetoday at 5:25 AM

And then by using the fact that the exponential turns addition into multiplication, you get multiplication (and subtraction gives division).