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Analysis Rates OpenAI Math Result Lower On Explicitness Than Sawin

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Crudely, consider two axes a mathematical result can vary along: structure and explicitness With reservations (below) I think OAI's initial result is (4,2) and Sawin is (4,3)

3:38 AM · May 22, 2026 View on X

@testingham @polynoamial an attempt

gavin leech (Non-Reasoning)gavin leech (Non-Reasoning)@gleech

Crudely, consider two axes a mathematical result can vary along: structure and explicitness With reservations (below) I think OAI's initial result is (4,2) and Sawin is (4,3)

10:38 AM · May 22, 2026 · 875 Views
11:05 AM · May 22, 2026 · 6 Views

Wrinkles:

these aren't good proxies for depth or goodness of a result

the OAI result is explicitness 4 if read as a template, but explicitness 2 as a claim about the exponent (we know some ε works and why, but we aren't given a number).

gavin leech (Non-Reasoning)gavin leech (Non-Reasoning)@gleech

Crudely, consider two axes a mathematical result can vary along: structure and explicitness With reservations (below) I think OAI's initial result is (4,2) and Sawin is (4,3)

10:38 AM · May 22, 2026 · 875 Views
10:38 AM · May 22, 2026 · 74 Views

(2,4), and (3,4), doh

gavin leech (Non-Reasoning)gavin leech (Non-Reasoning)@gleech

Crudely, consider two axes a mathematical result can vary along: structure and explicitness With reservations (below) I think OAI's initial result is (4,2) and Sawin is (4,3)

10:38 AM · May 22, 2026 · 875 Views
10:38 AM · May 22, 2026 · 146 Views
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