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by civilized 1160 days ago
It doesn't work with numbers as computer numbers though. It works with them as decimal digit strings, just like humans do.
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Paul-Craft 1160 days ago
Make the number you multiply by essentially the concatenation of a long series of random digits, and I can just about guarantee most humans will get different things on both sides, because they'll make one or more mistakes doing the math. That is, of course, assuming the humans don't have suitable traditional computer tools capable of handling such a scenario.
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civilized 1160 days ago
Not sure how this is relevant to the discussion.
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Paul-Craft 1159 days ago
You don't see how asking humans to multiply both sides of 2 * 2 = 4 by the same, very large, random-ish number, and expecting that they'll get different things is relevant to this:

> 2 * 2 = 4, but if you multiply both sides of that equation by a big number, that's no longer true.

You know, the very same scenario I pulled from your comment?

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civilized 1159 days ago
It's not the same issue. I was talking to GPT about the strings 2 * 2 * x and 4 * x, not the multiplied-out versions.
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