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DoctorOetkertoday at 9:08 AM1 replyview on HN

> Odrzywolek's result is immediately obvious

This may or may not be true; but the burden of proof should not lay with the reader.

Please provide (in absence of which every reader can draw their own conclusions) a reference which simultaneously:

1) predates Odrzywolek's result

2) and demonstrates the other unary and binary operations typically tacitly assumed can be expressed in terms of a single binary operation and a constant.

(in other news: I can spontaneously levitate, I just don't feel like demonstrating it to you right now...)


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zephentoday at 1:15 PM

Upvoted back to not-greyed-out. You must have struck a nerve.