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Two different "authorities" produce widely different word counts - which is correct? I am using "Times New Roman" with 1 inch margins. One authority "says" one word equals 6 characters. Since ea...
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2019-12-08T05:26:38Z (almost 5 years ago)
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Jim Johnson
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2019-12-08T05:26:38Z (almost 5 years ago)
Two different "authorities" produce widely different word counts - which is correct? I am using "Times New Roman" with 1 inch margins. 1. One authority "says" one word equals 6 characters. Since each line has 96 characters, this approach yields 16 words per line. 16 times 25 lines equals 400 words per page 2. Other authority "says" use 10 words per lines. This approach yields 250 words per page. They cannot both be correct.
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System
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2016-07-23T00:19:16Z (over 8 years ago)
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