# How to return correct percentiles? **URL:** https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-return-correct-percentiles/163043 **Category:** Prompting **Created:** [April 16, 2023, 10:46pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-return-correct-percentiles/163043 "2023-04-16T22:46:09Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 7
### Author: ![N2U](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/n2u/32/54438_2.png) [@N2U](https://community.openai.com/u/N2U) #### Post date: [April 17, 2023, 8:59pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-return-correct-percentiles/163043/7 "2023-04-17T20:59:32Z")
Both GPT-3.5 & 4, are inherently bad at math, you can sometimes use it to create code that will calculate the correct answer, it that fails I’ll suggest using a spreadsheet or calculator. I’ve written some more about it over in this thread: > [@Physics and Mathematics as an ai tool](https://community.openai.com/t/physics-and-mathematics-as-an-ai-tool/150732/2): > > Hey Champ, And welcome to the community forum, I’m always happy to see people interested science Large language models, like GPT-3, are primarily designed to process and generate natural language text, such as articles, essays, and stories. They are not specifically trained or optimized to solve mathematical or physical problems. large language models are probabilistic in nature and operate by generating likely outputs based on patterns they have observed in the training data. In the case of … --- _[View the full topic](https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-return-correct-percentiles/163043)._