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Comment by bzax

16 hours ago

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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freehorse  14 hours ago

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

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