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The four fundamental operations of arithmetic are addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. To these you could add taking powers and roots. However, it is not really clear why these should be considered fundamental.

Subtraction is the inverse operation of addition.

Multiplication is repeated addition, taking non-negative integer powers is repeated multiplication.

Division is the inverse of multiplication and taking [principal] roots is the inverse of powers.

Thus all the functions can be derived from addition.

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