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by CamperBob2 12 days ago
Of course you could win all kinds of math competitions with a concealed calculator. Maybe you'd need a fancy one, like a little SBC running Python.

My mistake.

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Taking issue with using a computer to power the calculator? If so, you should know that all modern calculators are computers under the hood.

Everything I've written about calculators applies to computers doing any kind of traditional deterministic processing, without anything like LLMs.