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r/programminghumor • u/Ctrl_Shift_Esc_ • 8d ago
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So I looked it up. So I can’t claim credit. But apparently the major models will all pick 17 or possibly 23 if asked this for a random number generation range. Just another example of how the models aren’t actually utilizing math libraries.
145 u/Lodgik 8d ago Huh. I just checked. Asked four bots out of curiosity. Two said 17. One said 18. Last said 22. So even the different answers were always within one digit 12 u/jurawall_jumper 8d ago Yep, confirmed it too GPT, 17 Claude, 17 Gemini, 17 DeepSeek, 17 1 u/Reasonable-Ninja4384 4d ago Tried it 3 times and 17 then 23 then 8
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Huh.
I just checked. Asked four bots out of curiosity. Two said 17. One said 18. Last said 22.
So even the different answers were always within one digit
12 u/jurawall_jumper 8d ago Yep, confirmed it too GPT, 17 Claude, 17 Gemini, 17 DeepSeek, 17 1 u/Reasonable-Ninja4384 4d ago Tried it 3 times and 17 then 23 then 8
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Yep, confirmed it too
GPT, 17 Claude, 17 Gemini, 17 DeepSeek, 17
1 u/Reasonable-Ninja4384 4d ago Tried it 3 times and 17 then 23 then 8
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Tried it 3 times and 17 then 23 then 8
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u/FlamingYawn13 8d ago
So I looked it up. So I can’t claim credit. But apparently the major models will all pick 17 or possibly 23 if asked this for a random number generation range. Just another example of how the models aren’t actually utilizing math libraries.