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skohan • today at 6:20 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Idk about Qwen 2.5 Coder that this is based on, but modern models don't struggle with arithmetic. I see Qwen 3.8 do long-hand math in thinking traces (ie. it outputs 17+35+12=64 in the thinking trace) so I would imagine this is something they train into the model specifically. Sometimes it creates and runs a simple python script to check its work.


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zahlman • today at 8:44 AM

It's still strange to me that an ability to perform arithmetic (and not just memorize a giant table of results) could emerge from training on language.

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