• hexaflexagonbear [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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    1 month ago

    This is up to 200 digit numbers, so you’d actually need to use a custom implementation for representing the integers and software addition but then a naive algorithm would still be like… 200 operations. Could probably drastically reduce that as well.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 month ago

      200bit numbers only require like 10 registers. X86-64 has 16 general purpose registers so doing operations with 200 digit numbers should hypothetically only require 20 loads and 10 multiplies. So a well written bit of code could do it in under 100 ops (probably under 50). So assuming this LLM implementation is running on a big server, it’s probably doing the same calculation, less accurately, with some exponentially larger amount of operations.