Interesting, never heart about dismal arithmetic before. Squint hard enough and it starts to look like tropical geometry. This is a different construction where

Interesting, never heart about dismal arithmetic before. Squint hard enough and it starts to look like tropical geometry. This is a different construction where you give the addition and multiplication operators in a polynomial a different meaning. I've been trying to have a better understand why this is useful. I know tropical geometry has been used to improve things like price discovery, but I never got to a better understanding as to why. I At any rate I would be curious to know what dismal arithmetic can do for me.