[tripdout]

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

[jedimastert]

Depends on how you define complexity?

Like when the Apollo guidance computer was made, the bottleneck was making integrated chips so they only made one, the NOR gate, and a whackton of routing to build out an entire CPU. Horribly complex routing, very simplified integrated circuit construction

[eru]

In general, no.

[notorandit]

It's about symbolic computation more than calculations.

[eru]

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.