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To: BobL
So, are you saying you were being sarcastic, and if so in which post were you being sarcastic? Or are you being sarcastic in both? Though your replied answer looks solid, and works perfectly, and you obviously know creative ways to solve the number of days between two dates. 🙂👍

Either way you did not explain why the same question asked in two different variations produced two results that differed by by 402 days.

9049 - 402 = 8647

9049 was the number of days calculated between two dates when the two dates were specifically provided 09/11/2001 - 05/15/2025.

Yet when I asked it to determine the begin date working back from the end date of 5/15/2026 it produced the start date as being 09/11/2001.

So, my question in the post was, can either of you explain why there was a difference? I expected when I provided the dates that the answer would be 8646. Had I used 09/10/2001, then I would have expected the correct answer as being 8647.

So, as you can see, AI correctly returned with the correct start day when I provided the number of days between two dates with only the end date provided.

However, when I provided AI with both the begin & end dates it provided me with a number exceeding what both of us agree is 8647 by 402 (9049) as the number of days between the two dates.

Which proves that AI is fallible depending upon how the question is posed to it.

35 posted on 05/18/2025 7:49:41 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

I wasn’t being sarcastic, silly maybe. But I’m not good at numerology, so as to the 402 day discrepancy - I’m clueless.

But regarding AI, I’ve also given it math problems, only to have to coax it to the correct answer. I don’t know what’s going on with AI, but I would never trust it - so I wanted to do check the 8647 number myself anyway.


36 posted on 05/18/2025 7:54:41 AM PDT by BobL
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