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isn't gpt famously bad at math problems?
GPT3 is pretty bad at it compared to alternatives (although it's hard to compete with calculators on that field), but if it was just repeating after the training dataset it would be way worse. From the study I've linked in my other comment (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165.pdf):