On the additions necessary to compute certain functions

  • Authors:
  • David Kirkpatrick

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • STOC '72 Proceedings of the fourth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 1972

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Abstract

We introduce a theoretical notion, strongly related to algebraic independence, which can be applied to the terms of any computable expression to derive a lower bound on the number of additions and subtractions required to compute that expression.