Appearances of Inire

Jeff Wilson · 29 Jun 2010, 16:21 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:21:00 -0500
Subject: (urth) Appearances of Inire
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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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