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You can rely on the answer a calculator gives you. There's no danger that it will simply be confidently wrong.
by multjoy 1y ago
You can rely on the answer a calculator gives you. There's no danger that it will simply be confidently wrong.
- somanyphotons 1y agoSome calculators will confidently state incorrect answers to questions like: (10^15 + 7.2 − 10^15) * 100
- sfpotter 1y agoA 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!
- mulmen 1y agoLLMs 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.
- throwaway422432 1y agoHow about Pentium II floating point arithmetic?