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   Jon Gilbert (jgilbert@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 03:17:10 JST Jon Gilbert

   It was a long time ago and my memory may not be what it used to be, but when the Pentium came out in '94 with its floating-point FDIV bug, I don't remember *nearly* as many people coming out of the woodwork to defend it as there are in the replies to this post about ChatGPT's inability to do math: https://fosstodon.org/@atoponce/112796170421418841

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 03:42:04 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Jesse Morris

     @aubilenon @jgilbert @atoponce
     I mean, I think expecting •any• kind of arithmetic-based underlying reasoning here misrepresents the tool. There’s some web page out there where those numbers appear in some kind of relationship, end of story!

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     Jesse Morris (aubilenon@peoplemaking.games)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 03:42:11 JST Jesse Morris

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     • Paul Cantrell

     @jgilbert @inthehands @atoponce I feel like even if you think about it the wrong way, the difference should be 0.2, not 0.21?

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 05:01:51 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Jesse Morris

     @aubilenon
     I take special delight in trying to find the specific origin of its output. As with the pizza glue incident, occasionally it’s possible!

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     Jesse Morris (aubilenon@peoplemaking.games)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 05:01:52 JST Jesse Morris

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     • Paul Cantrell

     @inthehands @jgilbert @atoponce sure but engaging with it in any way other than just writing it off entirely requires interpreting the symbols it spat out without understanding them as having some meaning. This can be entertaining to do, so I choose to do it!

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     standev (standev@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 05:51:41 JST standev

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     • Paul Cantrell

     @jgilbert @inthehands @atoponce maybe it’s time for a new computing product which specializes in rapid and accurate calculations. I’m thinking something like the Adding Machine