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  2. Page numbering - Wikipedia

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    Page number in a book. Page numbering is the process of applying a sequence of numbers (or letters, or Roman numerals) to the pages of a book or other document. The number itself, which may appear in various places on the page, can be referred to as a page number or as a folio. [1]

  3. Orders of magnitude (data) - Wikipedia

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    4,147,200 bits – one frame of uncompressed NTSC DVD video (720 × 480 × 12 bpp Y'CbCr) 2 22: 4,194,304 bits (512 kibibytes) 4,976,640 bits – one frame of uncompressed PAL DVD video (720 × 576 × 12 bpp Y'CbCr) 5,000,000 bits – Typical English book volume in plain text format of 500 pages × 2000 characters per page and 5-bits per character.

  4. List of largest books by page count - Wikipedia

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    Ilan Manouach's Onepiece, a book of more than 20,000 pages, was labeled functionally as a "sculpture" because of the difficulty one would experience when trying to turn its many pages. [7] Many novels with a total page count that reaches into the thousands are split into different volumes. Novels that use this method are often regarded as a ...

  5. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.

  6. Page (computer memory) - Wikipedia

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    This would be time-consuming. It would be much faster if the reader had a listing of how many words are on each page. From this listing they could determine which page the 5,000th word appears on, and how many words to count on that page. This listing of the words per page of the book is analogous to a page table of a computer file system. [5]

  7. Outline of books - Wikipedia

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    Epilogue – a piece of writing at the end of the a book which brings closure to the work. Afterword – a piece of writing covering the story of how the book came into being; Appendix – supplemental addition to the given work that details information found in the body; Glossary – a set of definitions of words important to the work.

  8. Octavo - Wikipedia

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    Octavo metrics compared to the folio and quarto. Octavo, a Latin word meaning "in eighth" or "for the eighth time", [1] (abbreviated 8vo, 8º, or In-8) is a technical term describing the format of a book, which refers to the size of leaves produced from folding a full sheet of paper on which multiple pages of text were printed to form the individual sections (or gatherings) of a book.

  9. Writing system - Wikipedia

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    A writing system comprises a set of symbols, called a script, as well as the rules by which the script represents a particular language.The earliest writing was invented during the late 4th millennium BC.