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> For example, it seems to understand how to find a sum, mean, median, and mode. > Input: 1, 4, 5, 6, 2, 1, 1 > Output: 2.28571428571

Well, even with those small numbers, it's wrong. The first "2" after the dot should not be there. The result it gives is 16/7, not 20/7.



I wonder how much of this is an illusion of precision that comes from pattern matching on content from filler sites like https://www.free-hosting.biz/division/16-divided-7.html (I do not recommend clicking the link, but the result appears there).


I was thinking the same thing, especially as we are talking about division, and the result is "correct" for 16/7 to a great number of digits.

See also the "x = x + x three times", for which the result is not random but the result for the same thing... Two times instead of three (so result/2). That heavily smells like it has read sites that had nearly the same code on them.




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