Method: Few-shot examples (continued)
Results
Testing on grade school math problems, the authors found that chain of thought prompting tripled the solve rate, from 18% to 57%.

In addition to math problems, chain of thought prompting also lifted performance on questions related to sports understanding, coin flip tracking, and last letter concatenation. In most cases, not many examples were need to saturate the performance gains (less than 8 or so).

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