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ckemere04/24/20251 replyview on HN

Of course! I was originally imagining google would give me a website with an embedded calculator. I was most surprised by how everything was beautifully accurate up until the end when the number felt suspicious. (Much less suspicious than the examples I posted, actually.)


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namaria04/24/2025

You can just search for "interest calculator" there many such sites.

Also, I don't quite get it:

> everything was beautifully accurate up until the end when the number felt suspicious

The LLM generated text about compounding interest over 400 years from early modern british pounds to modern dollars was accurate? How is it possible to be accurate about an absurd operation?