# Chatgpt providing wrong answers. gtp4-o

**URL:** https://community.openai.com/t/chatgpt-providing-wrong-answers-gtp4-o/1089968
**Category:** Use cases and examples
**Tags:** gpt-4
**Created:** [January 13, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/chatgpt-providing-wrong-answers-gtp4-o/1089968 "2025-01-13T18:32:30Z")
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### Author: ![sakiwick8](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/sakiwick8/32/535802_2.png) [@sakiwick8](https://community.openai.com/u/sakiwick8)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/chatgpt-providing-wrong-answers-gtp4-o/1089968/1 "2025-01-13T18:32:30Z")

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I was asking chatgpt to convert an octal number to hexadecimal. It was spitting out wrong answers almost every time.

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### Author: ![\_j](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/_j/32/719663_2.png) [@\_j](https://community.openai.com/u/_j)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2025, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/chatgpt-providing-wrong-answers-gtp4-o/1089968/2 "2025-01-13T18:48:38Z")

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We seen in the screenshot bits being converted to hex, but not the failures that came before.

Essentially: the language prediction is not a calculator, and especially won’t work well on non-common patterns. It seems that some reasoning to break down the problem was done, but failed. Maybe a bit-shift?

In ChatGPT Plus: “You can’t math; send calculations to Python.”

 ![The image shows a Python IDLE shell where and functions are used to convert between hexadecimal and octal number formats. (Captioned by AI)](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/original/4X/0/8/c/08cca70d0407d20faae5eba441ab8acf5a54fcb3.png)