I took the calculator away from 50 LLMs and graded the arithmetic
Details
- External ID
- 49271070
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I took the calculator away from 50 LLMs and graded the arithmetic
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Aug. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.40793010752688175
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- calculators and financial estimation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- arithmetic performance evaluation of llms
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is an evaluation benchmark script and report that runs automated arithmetic test prompts against various LLM APIs and records the results.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Total development cost unclear - only final answer cost mentioned, Lack of transparency on failed runs and iteration expenses, Comment flagging/visibility issues based on karma
Feature requests: Publish detailed cost breakdown of development iterations, Disclose total runtime/execution time, Clarify comment flagging criteria
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Launched 285 days after the earliest competitor.
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