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  2. Page numbering - Wikipedia

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    Page numbering. 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] Like other numbering schemes such as chapter numbering, page numbers ...

  3. Help:References and page numbers - Wikipedia

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    References and page numbers. When citing sources in Wikipedia articles, the citation must clearly support the material as presented in the article, per the verifiability policy. It helps to give a page number or page range—or a section, chapter, or other division of the source—because then the reader does not have to carefully review the ...

  4. Book cipher - Wikipedia

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    Book cipher. A book cipher is a cipher in which each word or letter in the plaintext of a message is replaced by some code that locates it in another text, the key . A simple version of such a cipher would use a specific book as the key, and would replace each word of the plaintext by a number that gives the position where that word occurs in ...

  5. Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    WikiStats. The size of the English Wikipedia can be measured in terms of the number of articles, number of words, number of pages, and the size of the database, among other ways. As of 30 May 2024, there are 6,829,220 articles in the English Wikipedia containing over 4.5 billion words (giving an average of about 668 words per article).

  6. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    List of numeral system topics. Numeral prefix – Prefix derived from numerals or other numbers. Radix – Number of digits of a numeral system. Radix economy – Number of digits needed to express a number in a particular base. Table of bases – 0 to 74 in base 2 to 36.

  7. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    There is one count that puts the English vocabulary at about 1 million words — but that count presumably includes words such as Latin species names, prefixed and suffixed words, scientific terminology, jargon, foreign words of extremely limited English use and technical acronyms. [39] [40] [41] Urdu. 264,000. 264000.

  8. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    The naming procedure for large numbers is based on taking the number n occurring in 10 3n+3 (short scale) or 10 6n (long scale) and concatenating Latin roots for its units, tens, and hundreds place, together with the suffix -illion. In this way, numbers up to 10 3·999+3 = 10 3000 (short scale) or 10 6·999 = 10 5994 (long scale

  9. Table of contents - Wikipedia

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    However, all pages except the outside cover are counted, and the table of contents is often numbered with a lowercase Roman numeral page number. Many popular word processors, such as Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, and StarWriter are capable of automatically generating a table of contents if the author of the text uses specific styles for chapters ...