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> Basic counting isn't really math.

Counting most certainly is math.

Can you define or explain counting without also referencing/defining/explaining a mathematics concept?

> And it can count fine. It doesn't know how to spell.

It's the other way around, it could spell, it couldn't count the letters.

It doesn't input and output letters. It's like if it communicated with a version of sign language. It's using all the same words but it has an arbitrary signal or two for each one.

So it can't spell for garbage because the tokenizer hides the real spellings from the LLM.

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