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How LLMs can be Assisted to do Arithmetic Correctly

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Language models are famously terrible at arithmetic. But according to Hackaday's Maya Posch, there are techniques to make them do math correctly—often by pairing them with external calculators or using step-by-step reasoning prompts.

Source: https://hackaday.com/2026/06/19/how-llms-can-be-assisted-...

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