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by tasn 482 days ago
Though as I said in the rest of my comment, the 2+2 unwrap only works for N=2. So it's not a general unwrap, but rather a specific example that happens to work for N=2.
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Tistron 482 days ago
The 2*2 also doesn't seem a general unwrap.

2^2 -> 2*2 -> 2+2

2^3 -> 2*2*2 -> (2+2)+(2+2)

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tasn 482 days ago
It's not N^Y, it's N^2 as we are talking about the reverse of sqrt which is N^(1/2).

N^2 == N*N != N+N

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gpm 482 days ago
N^2 = N*N = Sum_i=1 to N of N.

More generally "unwrap" is being used as inlining the recursive hyper operation once more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperoperation

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