[BoredPositron]

I guess arithmetic is just harder for an LLM than higher math.

[bubblyworld]

Arithmetic is harder for mathematicians than higher maths too =P not even joking. It was a meme in my university's maths dept for a reason.

[pessimizer]

I was pretty famous in college for getting the problems right on exams while I was working symbolically, and right before the final answer failing at integer division or subtraction. Professors/TAs would still give you full credit though, maybe penalize you a point or something.

[emmelaich]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/57_(number)

aka the Grothendieck prime!

[PartiallyTyped]

In a group, you’d usually let the freshest handle splitting the bill because everyone else forgot arithmetic.

[therobots927]

it might take a while but their answer would always be correct. the same cannot be said for LLMs.

[soulofmischief]

Mathematicians make calculations in their errors all the time.

[soulofmischief]

Whoops, switched some words around on accident.

[bubblyworld]

Yeah, of course I agree with that =)

[stevenhuang]

Relevant post here that demonstrates this idea, 2022

Bad at arithmetic, promising at math: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qy5dF7bQcFjSKaW58/bad-at-ari...