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Comment by tripdout

12 hours ago

Interesting, but is the required combination of EML gates less complex than using other primitives?

In general, no.

  • It's about symbolic computation more than calculations.

    • Yes, and it's not all that useful there either.

      Eg ln is a rather complicated construct, it's not even a function. That's because for complex numbers, e^x is not bijective, and thus its inverse ain't a function.

      So using that complicated construct to define something simpler like addition invites extra complexity.