[ASpring]

> Remember that test where you ask a LLM whether 9.11 or 9.9 is the bigger number? [Just checked gpt-4o still gets it wrong]

Interesting, 4o got this right for me in a couple different framings including the simple "Which number is larger, 9.9 or 9.11?". To be a full apologist, there are a few different places (a lot of software versioning as one) where 9.11 is essentially the bigger number so it may be an ambiguous question without context anyway.

[multjoy]

How can "which is the larger number" be an ambiguous question?

[Zerot]

Which is the bigger version number? Version 9.9 or version 9.11? Which is the bigger dollar amount? $9.9 or $9.11?

Periods are not always used for the decimal separator but also as a separator for multiple sets of semi-independent numbers.

[umanwizard]

I have never seen someone write $9.09 as $9.9. What country is this common in?

[Zerot]

None. That is the point. 9.9 can be both bigger or smaller than 9.11 depending on context

[samrus]

if someone says "which is the bigger number" with no context you wont assume software version number, lets be real here

also $9.9 is clearly 9 dollars and 90 cents.

[com2kid]

As everyone else has said, semver. I use semver so often that my initial reading of 9.9 < 9.11 in a Hacker News comment would evaluate to true.

[acrooks]

There are some contexts where 9.11 is larger than 9.9, such as semver, so it could be ambiguous depending on the context.

[mwigdahl]

Larger in magnitude or in count of digits?