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I just asked chatgpt: "comparing 9.9 and 9.11, which is larger?"

and it responded:

9.11 is larger than 9.9.

When comparing these two numbers:

    9.9 can be written as 9.90 to have the same number of decimal places.
    9.11 remains 9.11.
Comparing digit by digit:

    The integer part (9) is the same for both.
    The first decimal place (9 vs. 1): 9 is larger.
    The second decimal place (0 vs. 1): 1 is larger, which makes 9.11 larger overall.
So, 9.11 > 9.9.


He's an AI. He's biased towards sorting algorithms :-)


I should have put a big asterisk and mentioned that my comment didn't apply to straight-up math.




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