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I think you mean "errors" rather than "errata". A book's errata is usually a list of errors that have been noted and are corrected on a separate page. You don't see errata so much these days—it's c...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T04:53:17Z (about 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Duncan McKenzie
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2019-12-08T04:53:17Z (about 5 years ago)
I think you mean "errors" rather than "errata". A book's errata is usually a list of errors that have been noted and are corrected on a separate page. You don't see errata so much these days—it's cheaper to correct the error and reprint it, and there's less of a financial inducement to print the errors on a separate sheet. 5 errors in 50 pages might be acceptable, depending on the nature of the errors. If it's a book on programming, and the errors mean that most of the programs don't work as printed, this is unacceptable. But if it's a missing comma here or there, then it sounds normal, and possibly better than average. Some people's "errors" are issues of style—for example, the so-called Oxford comma.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2016-02-02T14:30:14Z (almost 9 years ago)
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