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Lotus flowers growing by two per day

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What it tests: Linear versus exponential: the classic lily-pad answer (day 39) assumes doubling.

Prompt length: 615 characters, roughly 150 tokens (estimate). · Evaluation results for many models ↗

Prompt
The number of lotus flowers in the pond increases by two every day. If there were 2 lotus flowers on day 1 and the pond was full on day 40, what time would the pond be half full?*"

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How to grade it

Day 20. With +2 per day and 2 flowers on day 1, there are 2n flowers on day n, so the full pond holds 80 (day 40) and half is 40, reached on day 20.

Answer check: 2n flowers on day n: 80 on day 40, 40 on day 20.

Scorecard tick what the model got right: 0/4

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Where models usually fail

Day 39, the doubling answer.

Source

Author
GitHub @cpldcpu and contributors
From
Misguided Attention
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https://github.com/cpldcpu/MisguidedAttention/blob/bbae011e1fb5ce239373cb2f381787baec0dd236/README.md
Licence
CC0 1.0
How we use it
Full text (licence allows reuse)

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