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The researchers found that Llama 3.1 8B used a base-10 operation for month arithmetic.

Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sep 2026

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“And you were looking at the Lama model,”
“so I think it was Lama 3.1.8b.”
“You folks discovered that it was doing a base 10 operation.”
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