Arithmetic has a number of always applicable steps. Unscrambling does not unless one of those steps is "think". If you want to believe looking ahead is unecess

Arithmetic has a number of always applicable steps. Unscrambling does not unless one of those steps is "think". If you want to believe looking ahead is unecessary, be my guest lol. Humans would occasionally "hallucinate" words in too. For whatever reason(and this is verified independently of any of this), LLMs also appear to "get distracted"