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Re:Can a LLM convert C, to ASM to specs and then to a workin... by Joker_vD on Monday March 17, 2025 @02:36PM (#43391467)
Well, can you really expect an LLM to regurgitate e.g. the quarter-of-square method [0] without specifically prompting it for it?

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/040573c0

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Re:Can a LLM convert C, to ASM to specs and then to a workin... by beagle3 on Monday March 17, 2025 @10:35PM (#43395190)
No, but I would expect to do binary long multiplication and division, which have been used since before the intel 4004, and which it has surely seen in many Z80 and 6502 code bases fed into it.
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