Originally Posted by Nautigal
Originally Posted by 22B
All this pedantic, rule-based, mechanical procedure for processing "word problems" is something you could program a machine to do. It wouldn't need to understand a thing.

So you're saying, then, that some sort of device, some sort of "calculating" device, could be contrived, in which one could, say, enter numbers and types of operations, and it would somehow extrude the answers?

No. That's not what I was saying.