I think LLMs can do multiplication?

1 points by kovek 12 hours ago

I previously was able to get Gemini to tell me the algorithm for long multiplication, and then give it two large numbers to multiply, and it was able to follow the algorithm successfully.

I see users here often say that LLMs cannot do multiplication.

I decided I'll look into if LLMs can simulate CPUs. I discussed with Claude and it seems like they probably can:

https://claude.ai/share/24b65253-133b-4cab-b185-7c43c195e380

What do you think?

ungreased0675 10 hours ago

Ask an LLM if it can simulate a quantum computer. If it says yes, do you believe it could potentially do that?

  • kovek 9 hours ago

    What does that have to do with all the discussions in the conversation I shared?