(urth) Appearances of Inire

[Ryan Dunn]

I still think the books are printed on both sides of one page, like basically ALL other books you currently own.

...ryan


On Jun 29, 2010, at 12:21 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:

> On 6/28/2010 10:22 PM, Ryan Dunn wrote:
>> Jeff,
>> 
>> Just pointing out, that Gurloes's book is likely printed on both sides, which means one half of one side of one sheet = 4 families per page.
> 
> 'It gives about half a page to each. There are seven hundred and forty- six pages.'
> 
> Unless Gurloes is like Rainman, he got the page count from the last numbered page. Traditionally there is one numbered page on either side of a leaf. But whatever a "page" is, there are 746 of them, and each one can only have two halves, so the accommodated number of families remains approx 1500.
> 
> Ordinarily I wouldn't bother digressing on this, but it does establish something of a maximum degree of precision for figures given in the book, and I'm warming up to a new estimate on the Wall's height based on Ouen's comments where it might be important.
> 
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