It's rare that I see typos in a book, what with Spell-Rite, Spell-Check, et al. Some time ago, I noticed single spacing at the end of each sentence, which was 1 short of all I had been taught in English classes! Born curious and being a counter, ( a whole nuther story), I donned my Polish CSI babushka and happily announce the following, after deciding on what would become the sample average for this installment:
Average book of 200 pages
Average page size of 5-1/4" X 8"
61 characters per line---including spaces
31 lines per page
= 1891 characters per page---including spaces
26 sentences per page
200 pages
= 5200 total spaces
5200 spaces
divided by 1891 characters per page
= 2.7498677 saved pages per 200 page book
So...there IS an environmental benefit! Some quantum-quasi mathematician can extrapolate the number of saved trees. I'm off to another wonder. By the by, the above data resulted from reading, "Dancing Naked in the Mind Field" by Nobel Peace Prize winner, Kary Ellis...a bio-chemist with a great sense of humor...should you choose to believe that! (Seems he also likes to count)
Average page size of 5-1/4" X 8"
61 characters per line---including spaces
31 lines per page
= 1891 characters per page---including spaces
26 sentences per page
200 pages
= 5200 total spaces
5200 spaces
divided by 1891 characters per page
= 2.7498677 saved pages per 200 page book
So...there IS an environmental benefit! Some quantum-quasi mathematician can extrapolate the number of saved trees. I'm off to another wonder. By the by, the above data resulted from reading, "Dancing Naked in the Mind Field" by Nobel Peace Prize winner, Kary Ellis...a bio-chemist with a great sense of humor...should you choose to believe that! (Seems he also likes to count)
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