Could Claude Code be given a PerformBasicMaths tool?
Status Closed — not planned
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Activity 6 comments · opened Aug 25, 2025 · 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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