CalcGPT

It is bigger. You meant greater?

I'm sorry but this falls flat for me. GPT4 routinely can answer impressive math questions for me (college-level):

- What diameter steel wire would I need to be rated for a weight of 500lbs?

- How many digits would a ID need to be (using 36 characters) to have a 1/10^20 chance of collision over 1 billion random IDs?

- If I have a list of a million times (say durations of a web request) and they follow a normal distribution, and I take a sample of 1 million of those, how close would the average of my .1% sample be to the true average of the billion?

- Suppose in D&D I am told to roll 20 d6, but instead of rolling that many dice I want to roll just two (larger) dice and add a constant. Which standard D&D dice might give the closest variance and what is the constant?

This is the first time I have come across Calvin Liang, but I’m already a big fan. Their artist’s statement manages to be very funny while making a point. I like today.

It is for sure just a funny hobby project, but your statement had me intrigued:

> Suppose in D&D I am told to roll 20 d6, but instead of rolling that many dice I want to roll just two (larger) dice and add a constant. Which standard D&D dice might give the closest variance and what is the constant?

Interestingly, ChatGPT 4o tells me to use 2d19 + 51, even after correcting it and asking for larger dice. Impressive math for sure but not worth much if it doesn't respect constraints. I guess I could try again until it stumbles upon the right answer, but it's all to say it's not quite there yet.

Entered 42

The 8 solutions I got while clicking on regenerate:

    3.33333333333
    42, so the point your talking about is 3.3 (Accuracy is
    3 Additionally, 3 coincided with John 3:16 , "$3
    1
    3.33333333333
    42
    42+1=3+1=4=42+1=43
    2×5

Not so sure what I just did. Results are copy-pasted as-is