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Imagine a game of hide-and-seek. The players? Numbers. The seeker? Your computer. Most of the time, everyone gets found. But sometimes, a few sneaky numbers slip away, hiding so well that even the smartest computers forget them.
This mysterious game is called the floating-point problem. And believe it or not, it explains why even “thinking computers” (like ChatGPT and other Large Language Models, or LLMs) can sometimes give slightly different answers to the same question.
So, let’s meet our cast of characters in this number adventure.
