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Arithmetic Without Algorithms: Language Models Solve Math With a Bag of Heuristics — mentioned by dcrazy

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 23:33:04 GMT

LLMs can in fact do arithmetic, just not reliably owing to how numbers are represented probabilistically: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21272

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Arithmetic Without Algorithms: Language Models Solve Math With a Bag of Heuristics — mentioned by puttycat

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:03:38 GMT

If LLMs can't even do basic arithmetic [1,2,3], why should anyone trust them with what they put in their mouths? [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21272 [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02356 [3] https://github.com/0xnurl/gpts-cant-count

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Arithmetic Without Algorithms: Language Models Solve Math With a Bag of Heuristics — HN submission

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 21:15:12 GMT

Arithmetic Without Algorithms: LLMs Solve Math with a Bag of Heuristics

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