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Re:An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adop... by multjoy on Thursday July 10, 2025 @06:32PM (#44526426)
You can rely on the answer a calculator gives you. There's no danger that it will simply be confidently wrong.
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Re:An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adop... by sfpotter on Thursday July 10, 2025 @06:36PM (#44526458)
A calculator uses some type of finite precision arithmetic internally. If you run afoul of the limits of this arithmetic system, it may very confidently give you a wrong answer!
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Re:An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adop... by somanyphotons on Thursday July 10, 2025 @06:34PM (#44526446)
Some calculators will confidently state incorrect answers to questions like:

(10^15 + 7.2 − 10^15) * 100

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Re:An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adop... by mulmen on Thursday July 10, 2025 @07:14PM (#44526764)
LLMs are notoriously bad at math but they’re not LMMs so that shouldn’t be surprising.

If you want an LLM to do math you just ask it to write a program with tests.

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Re:An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adop... by throwaway422432 on Thursday July 10, 2025 @08:37PM (#44527283)
How about Pentium II floating point arithmetic?
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