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		brundolf on Oct 10, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lisp in a Weekend Technically I think you could implement arithmetic as recursive functions operating on lists of different lengths.....

DonaldFisk on Oct 10, 2021 | [–]

Interestingly, this was more or less the way that Lenat's program AM discovered numbers, and later arithmetic.

brundolf on Oct 10, 2021 | | [–]

Hah, I actually used to work for Lenat but I didn't know this :)

mpfundstein on Oct 10, 2021 | [–]

you just inspired me to re-read GEB part 1 :-)

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