I think LLMs can do multiplication?

1 pointskovek4mo ago2 comments

I previously was able to get Gemini to tell me the algorithm for long multiplication, and then give it two large numbers to multiply, and it was able to follow the algorithm successfully.

I see users here often say that LLMs cannot do multiplication.

I decided I'll look into if LLMs can simulate CPUs. I discussed with Claude and it seems like they probably can:

https://claude.ai/share/24b65253-133b-4cab-b185-7c43c195e380

What do you think?

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ungreased06754mo ago

Ask an LLM if it can simulate a quantum computer. If it says yes, do you believe it could potentially do that?

kovekOP4mo ago

What does that have to do with all the discussions in the conversation I shared?

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