To: Doctor Stochastic
Given enough adders, multiplication can be faked.
105 posted on
01/26/2006 6:54:55 PM PST by
VadeRetro
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To: VadeRetro
Not true actually. See "Pressburger Arithmetic." Repeated addition can multiply by any specific number but one cannot then derive all theorems about multiplication. It's amusing.
109 posted on
01/26/2006 7:01:46 PM PST by
Doctor Stochastic
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