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Old 11-11-2019, 05:52 PM   #36
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans View Post
Incorrect. Close, but incorrect. (Look at the edge cases above.) Word Counts can vary wildly, especially in the case of ebooks.

For your typical Novel, a raw word count would probably be "okay", but anything more complicated than that (Non-Fiction, Math, Javascript-enabled books)...

And the larger the books, the more different word count algorithms diverge.
All of which are much more simply resolved than what constitutes a page. Especially as we move away from physical pages and into digital books where pages don’t actually exist, meanwhile words still do.
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