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LLM Tokens, Measured in C#: Why AI Can't Count the R's in Strawberry

In August 2024, TechCrunch asked a simple question : how many R's are in "strawberry"? According to GPT-4o and Claude at the time, two. The answer is three. The model isn't bad at counting. It never saw the letters. It saw tokens, and every token is just a number. Every token count in this article…

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  1. 2026-10-31 22:16 · DEV Community — AI
    LLM Tokens, Measured in C#: Why AI Can't Count the R's in Strawberry

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