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
Mathematical minimalism

How to bootstrap all the common calculator functions from just one function.

John D. Cook | Applied Mathematics Consulting
The Ultimate Question of The Universe

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What do you want?
6.5%
What do you need?
12.9%
What's for dinner?
37.1%
What's the answer to everything? It's 42. ;-)
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@dramypsyd Don't take the experiment down yet, it's not yet finished!

It's actually the mice that have been running complex experiments on humans through #Twitter as part of their 10-million-year research program to find the #UltimateQuestion.

42 and Douglas Adams - Numberphile

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Answer To The Ultimate Question - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - BBC

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