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maxrmk • 01/21/2025 • 1 reply • view on HN

Yeah that’s my understanding of the root cause. It can also cause weirdness with numbers because they aren’t tokenized one digit at a time. For good reason, but it still causes some unexpected issues.


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versteegen • 01/21/2025

I believe DeepSeek models do split numbers up into digits, and this provides a large boost to ability to do arithmetic. I would hope that it's the standard now.

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