Could Claude Code be given a PerformBasicMaths tool?
Resolved 💬 6 comments Opened Aug 25, 2025 by lukens Closed Jan 4, 2026
Because it can be really bad at even really basic maths, even when you tell it to check. So could it be given a tool that it can use to parse and calculate the _actual_ results, rather than probabilistically guessing what the result might be?
A recent example of this:
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