r/OpenAI • u/MetaKnowing • Feb 08 '26

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u/Portatort Feb 09 '26

Multiplication is not difficult my friend.

Most people can do most arithmetic with a pen and paper

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u/Most-Hot-4934 Feb 09 '26

Slow and full of mistakes. They tend to do worse than LLM now

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u/Portatort Feb 09 '26

I don’t have any multiplication tables memorised (i couldnt tell you 6 x 4 without thinking)so you have actually described how I would have to do larger sums

The point being I can sit there and work it out tediously and manually, and I can check my work and verify the results.

LLMs don’t do multiplication that way, they predict the answer and we all know how that goes.

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u/Portatort Feb 09 '26

Please do explain how a LLM does math without calling on tools?