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by lucumo
319 days ago
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That one's cool. It started out wrong, so I just kept asking it "You sure?" until it decide to break out the calculator (Python). After that it's answer didn't change anymore and it was very sure. I tried again, in another chat with different numbers. And got the same pattern, and a message that my data analysis limit was exceeded. I guess that's why it doesn't always break out the calculator. In very limited testing (due to the limit) telling it to use the calculator for difficult calculations works fine. I guess OpenAI could use that in their student mode. |
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> Me: I have these two numbers: 3452346 and 343424. Can you multiply them exactly, but without using Python or another calculator?
I proceeded to breakdown the smaller number in 300,000 + 40,000 + 3,000 + 400 + 20 + 4 and doing each step as follows:
> Calculate each partial product:
> 3,452,346 × 300,000 = ?
> Multiply 3,452,346 × 3 = 10,357,038
> Then multiply by 100,000 = 1,035,703,800,000
I checked each step, and it got those correct. It then added the partial results together.
> Final result: 1,185,618,472,704
> So: 3,452,346 × 343,424 = 1,185,618,472,704
> No Python, no calculator — just a bit of patience and the power of breakdown.
(That answer is correct.)
I am honestly surprised that it got that right. A teacher would need to break it down a bit further, both to calculate and to explain, but it's pretty much there. (I also didn't ask it to teach, just to do a calculation.)