Comment on CalcGPTComments−xanderlewis2yCue the comments about criticism of this calculator being unfair as thinking, for example, that 88*10 = 888 is a ‘very human’ mistake to make.−aflag2yI got 883, which is also very human. They just forgot to write one of the halves of 8−lo0dot02yYou can only get an 8 in the rightmost digit of the result by multiples of the rightmost digits, but 08 obviously gets you a 0, so fairly easy to see this is wrong.(10a+b)(10c+d) = 100ac+10(ad+bc)+bd−xanderlewis2yWell… I was joking. Even more generally, multiplication by b in base b gives a zero at the end.−xanderlewis2y… and, in fact, ‘b in base b’ always looks like 10 anyway!
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Cue the comments about criticism of this calculator being unfair as thinking, for example, that 88*10 = 888 is a ‘very human’ mistake to make.
I got 883, which is also very human. They just forgot to write one of the halves of 8
You can only get an 8 in the rightmost digit of the result by multiples of the rightmost digits, but 08 obviously gets you a 0, so fairly easy to see this is wrong.
(10a+b)(10c+d) = 100ac+10(ad+bc)+bd
Well… I was joking. Even more generally, multiplication by b in base b gives a zero at the end.
… and, in fact, ‘b in base b’ always looks like 10 anyway!