Counting the E's in 'Seventeen': Qwen3 and GPT Disagree, Both Wrong

Express_Quail_1493 · reddit · 2026-10-31

A comparison screenshot: asked how many e's are in "seventeen," a local qwen3.8-27b thinks for 1.67 s and answers "4" with a letter-by-letter breakdown, while GPT confidently says "3." The correct count is 4—two models, two different wrong answers, a classic tokenization-flavored failure.

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