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traestoday at 5:08 AM1 replyview on HN

This preprint was written by a researcher at an accredited university with a PhD in physics. I'm sure they know what a vector valued function is.

The point of this paper is not to revolutionize how a scientific calculator functions overnight, its to establish a single binary operation that can reproduce the rest of the typical continuous elementary operations via repeated application, analogous to how a NAND or NOR gate creates all of the discrete logic gates. Hence, "continuous mathematics" as opposed to discrete mathematics. It seems to me you're being overly negative without solid reasoning.


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paulpaupertoday at 6:19 AM

its to establish a single binary operation that can reproduce the rest of the typical continuous elementary operations via repeated application,

But he didn't show this though. I skimmed the paper many times. He creates multiple branches of these trees in the last page, so it's not truly a single nested operation.

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