Which bit do you need a citation for? I can run the experiment in 10 mins.
Why?
What does it mean to give a model a calculator?
What do you mean “let it show its working”? If I ask an LLM to do a calculation, I never said it can’t express the answer to me in long-form text or with intermediate steps.
If I ask a human to do a calculation that they can’t reliably do in their head, they are intelligent enough to know that they should use a pen and paper without needing my preemptive permission.