I'd guess it works like any form of learning a subject. The better you have internalized the fundamentals, the better you can perform at higher level tasks. Th

I'd guess it works like any form of learning a subject. The better you have internalized the fundamentals, the better you can perform at higher level tasks. Though to that end, I wonder if the model "knows" that it "understands" the fundamentals better once it's been trained like this, or if when it has to do a large multiplication as part of a larger reasoning task, does it still break it down step by step.