[AndrewOMartin]

It's unlikely that "2241 + 19873 = 22114" specifically is in the dataset, but very likely that there are many expressions equivalent to that expression in the dataset, and we've just picked one of those.

Imagine someone watching every lottery draw and after each draw going "Wow! the chances of those exact numbers coming up in that order are atronomical!"

[dlkf]

> there are many expressions equivalent to that expression in the dataset

What do you mean by this?

[AndrewOMartin]

I meant that I expect there are many examples of "a + b = c" in the training corpus, so GPT3 will answer some of them correctly.