alt Hacker NewsJudging by the title, I thought I would have a good laugh, like when the doctor discovered numerical integration and published a paper.
But no...
This is about continuous math, not ones and zeroes. Assuming peer review proves it out, this is outstanding.
I don't think this is ever making it past the editor of any journal, let alone peer review.
Elementary functions such as exponentiation, logarithms and trigonometric functions are the standard vocabulary of STEM education. Each comes with its own rules and a dedicated button on a scientific calculator;
What?
and No comparable primitive has been known for continuous mathematics: computing elementary functions such as sin, cos, √ , and log has always required multiple distinct operations. Here we show that a single binary operator
Yeah, this is done by using tables and series. His method does not actually facilitate the computation of these functions.
There is no such things as "continuous mathematics". Maybe he meant to say continuous function?
Looking at page 14, it looks like he reinvented the concept of the vector valued function or something. The whole thing is rediscovering something that already exists.