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submitted 1 month ago by Mercuri@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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Probably should've just asked Wolfram Alpha

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[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Oh. I just noticed the extraneous word in the search, which might be throwing off the LLM trying to understand it.

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I asked ChatGPT these questions and got sensible answers.

How much more is one half than one third?

[subtraction answer: 1/6 more]

That's one possibility, but what about the other way to interpret that question?

[ratio answer, but expressed as "1.5 times as much" rather than "1/2 more"]