John Andrzej Odrzywolek has bravely reinvented the wheel by declaring that you can derive math's most basic operations using... math's most basic operations! 🚀🤔 Apparently, the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is a single function and the number 1. Who knew? 🤷‍♂️
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/04/13/the-smallest-math-library/ #reinventingthewheel #mathoperations #ultimatequestion #mathfun #innovation #HackerNews #ngated