A user at a French consulting firm's UK office encountered an issue with an Excel spreadsheet used for calculating employee billable hours. The integration, which piped data from Oracle ERP, had been functioning correctly for over a year before the user reported inaccuracies. The problem stemmed from the user manually altering the data, dividing minutes by 100 instead of 60 to represent hours, leading to calculations being off by approximately one-third. AI
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RANK_REASON This is a user-submitted anecdote about a common software misconfiguration, not a significant AI development.