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Written by Smokeydope@lemmy.world on 2025-01-25 at 10:45

Why llms are suprisingly good at math, and what it means to process language.

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Written by hendrik on 2025-01-25 at 10:53

Are they good at math, though? I can get ChatGPT to add numbers. But every division and other operation seems to give a wrong result almost every time.

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Written by stevedice@sh.itjust.works on 2025-01-25 at 23:05

So, a few weeks ago I was cooking and needed 3 liters of water. My largest measuring cup is 500ml and I couldn’t be bothered to fill it 6 times so I had the brilliant idea of asking chatgpt how high should I fill a pot that’s 22cm in diameter to get 3 liters because I thought it’d be faster than doing the math myself. It told me 7 meters.

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Written by Smokeydope@lemmy.world on 2025-01-26 at 15:08

OpenAI and ChatGPT have been smoked by the competition for awhile now. I wouldnt know, I only run open models locally Here’s what my local deepseek distill of qwen2.5-14b running on an old nvidia 1070ti has to say about your question. Its been awhile since I had to do volume equations but its answer seems about right, 7.89 cm sounds closer to the right answer than 7 meters anyway lol

Question:

how high should I fill a pot that’s 22cm in diameter to get 3 liters?

Answer: "Alright, let’s tackle this problem. The user wants to know how high they should fill a pot that’s 22 cm in diameter to get 3 liters of water.

First, I need to understand what exactly is being asked here. It seems like they’re trying to determine the height of water when poured into a pot with a specific diameter, such that the volume of water is 3 liters.

Okay, so the pot can be assumed to be cylindrical since pots are typically round and symmetrical. That makes sense because the diameter is given, and we can model it as a cylinder.

Now, the formula for the volume of a cylinder is:

V = \pi r^2 h

Where:

( V ) is the volume,

( r ) is the radius,

( h ) is the height.

The user provided the diameter, which is 22 cm. Since the radius is half of the diameter, the radius ( r ) would be 11 cm.

The volume they want is 3 liters. I know that 1 liter is equal to 1000 cubic centimeters (cm³), so 3 liters would be 3000 cm³.

So, plugging in the values we have:

3000 = pi (11)^2 h

Calculating ( 11^2 ):

11^2 = 121

So now the equation becomes:

3000 = pi times 121 times h

To solve for ( h ), we’ll divide both sides by ( pi times 121 ):

h = 3000/( pi times 121 )

Calculating the denominator first:

pi approx 3.1416

3.1416 times 121 = approx 380.132

Now, dividing 3000 by 380.132:

h = 3000 divided by 380.132 = approx 7.89 cm

So, the height of the water should be approximately 7.89 cm to get 3 liters.

Since it’s not practical to measure 0.89 cm precisely, rounding up to 8 cm would ensure there’s enough water, but if precision is important, sticking with 7.89 cm is better.

Therefore, the pot should be filled to about 7.89 cm high to hold exactly 3 liters.

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