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The LLM is an LLM. It runs on computer hardware which has an ALU, but that doesn't make the LLM a calculator. The LLM can, however, call out to a calculator to do addition when it deems necessary.

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The LLM is not doing anything other than arithmetic calculations. Every operation an LLM is doing can be done with a calculator.

Typically we don't refer to matrix multiplication as arithmetic calculations, but you do you.

I'm pretty sure it's all arithmetic for an LLM but you do you too.

> Typically we don't refer to matrix multiplication as arithmetic calculations

You don't? Didn't you do them in school? Everyone calls that arithmetic's, you are just adding up and multiplying a bunch of numbers.

do you really multiply numbers but call that arithmetic? I must sincerely ask, where are you?

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