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Old 11-11-2019, 06:03 PM   #38
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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.
(e.a.)

Now I'm curious: This thread has been about "real" page numbers, arbitrarily assigned from a specific edition of a paper copy of a book. How many paper books are Javascript-enabled?
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