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Why would I bother?
Calculators exist, logic exists, so no... LLMs are a laughably bad fit for directly doing math, they are bullshit engines they cannot "store" a value without fundamentally exposing it to hallucinating tendencies which is the worst property a calculator could possibly have.
It was about all six models getting the same answer from different accounts. I was testing it. Over a hundred each same numbers
Right so because LLMs are attrocious at actually precisely carrying out logic operations the solution was likely to just throw a normal calculator inside the AI, make the AI use the calculator and then turn around and handwave that the entire thing is AI.
So... you could just skip the bullshit and use a calculator, the AI just repackages the same answer with more boilerplate bullshit.
Wolfram Alpha is the non-bullshit version of this.
https://www.wolframalpha.com/
Irrelevant.
LLMs are incapable of reasoning. At the core level, it is a physical impossibility.