Please Help.
How do you find the total words of a book without counting each one of them? So not like an exact exact number since I am surely not going to count all the words.

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Please Help. 
How do you find the total words of a book without counting each one of them? So not like an exact exact number since I am surely not going to count all the words.

anonymous · Answer

@jim_thompson5910

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@Luis_Rivera

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@sami-21

anonymous · Answer

Any idea? Anyone?

anonymous · Answer

@wio

anonymous · Answer

Do you know how to figure it out?

anonymous · Answer

Count the number of works on 1 page and then multiply by the number of pages.

Do be more accurate, count for 5 pages, divide the result by 5, and multiply by the number of pages.

anonymous · Answer

wait @wio can you explain your second part?

anonymous · Answer

so i count the number of words in five pages. Then i divide that by 5. Then multiply the total pages of the works?

anonymous · Answer

The basic idea is that the total number of words is approximately equal to the average words per page times the number of pages: $$
w \approx \mu p \quad \mu \to w/p
$$

anonymous · Answer

@some_someone Yes, that is the general idea.

anonymous · Answer

The method is exactly precise if you count for all the pages.  It gets less exact the less number of pages you count.

anonymous · Answer

oh okaii thnx :D