(urth) Appearances of Inire

[John Watkins]

...and almost everyone in the world refers to a "page" as being a single
face of the paper, not a single sheet of paper.  Which there are different
numbers on the opposite sides of the sheet.

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Ryan Dunn <ryan at liftingfaces.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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> > < http://ieeetamut.org >
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