I haven't used any plugins like Wolfram, but previously today I tried to get ChatGPT to calculate the width of my monitor. It answered something that was almost right, but actually wrong because of both a logical error, and a misplaced parenthesis. If you don't double check its result, you would probably think it was correct.<p>Here's a screenshot with my annotations [0], and here's ChatGPT's answer copy pasted if you want to try and spot the errors yourself:<p><pre><code> A 24" monitor with a 16:10 aspect ratio has a diagonal screen size of 24 inches, which is equivalent to 61 cm.
To determine the width of the monitor, we need to use the aspect ratio, which is the ratio of the width to the height of the screen. For a 16:10 aspect ratio, this means that the width of the monitor is 16 units for every 10 units of height.
To calculate the width of the monitor in centimeters, we can use the following formula:
Width = (diagonal size^2 / (1 + aspect ratio^2))^0.5
Plugging in the values we have, we get:
Width = (61^2 / (1 + 16/10)^2)^0.5
Width = (3721 / 2.56)^0.5
Width = 54.2 cm (rounded to one decimal place)
Therefore, a 24" 16:10 monitor is approximately 54.2 cm wide.
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