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by HarHarVeryFunny 1120 days ago
You can get the chapter counts from here:

http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-the-haj/chapanal001.html

On the left side if you click on "Chapters Summary and Analysis" it gives a break down of the book into 5 parts with varying chapter counts:

Part 1 Chapters 1-20 Part 2 Chapters 1-16 Part 3 Chapters 1-10 Part 4 Chapters 1-17 Part 5 Chapters 1-14

Giving a total of 20+16+10+17+14 = 77 chapters

OTOH, I tried with Bing/Creative, telling it to use this link, and it still failed. Perhaps because you need to click on the "summary and analysis" section to expand it to show the info. It seems there is room for web retrieval-augmented LLMs like Bing to improve here and be a bit more agentic.

Interestingly Knuth's own answer to the question, has a typo, and refers to the book as having "four" chapters, while then continuing on to give the chapter counts as above for all five chapters! Something to confuse future GPTs when the training set includes this, perhaps!

https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt