How many pages ? ?

[Verylost]

Ok i have a book that 300 pages with strandard 0.25 inch margin on all 4 sides of the print paper;  thats 0.14 in letter size;  roman type nothing special .      No photos or graphs etc in the book, its 64 lines down and 73 characters across .
 
Whats the math to figure out how many pages = one mb  ?       How that makes sense  -  thanks  : )

[Salmon Trout]

You do not say if it is a Word document, or plain text, or what, why don't you create a dummy document using Lorem Ipsum and save it and see what the file size comes out as?

[Verylost]

I didn t know it mattered since i posted the margin size but plain text nothing fancy .    No photos or graphs .

Thats how e books are set up. 

As for why i don t do it myself you ask OK here's why; i don t know the math guessing its 64 x 74 = 4736 but then how many characters equal one mb and then whats the math after that never heard of lorem Ipsum how does one create a dummie document on that ?

Their must be math geeks here that can figure out the above out blindfolded ; maybe the next poster :  (

[Salmon Trout]

For plain text it's either one byte per character if you are using ASCII or 2 bytes if you are using Unicode. So you just do the arithmetic: number of chars per line X lines per page X number of pages. 1 megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes. So the arithmetic is very simple.

[Verylost]

Awful at math i'll wait on an answer ho hum

[Salmon Trout]

It's not "math". It's arithmetic. Don't you have a calculator?

[Verylost]

Lets not stress out as usual here on this site and its math just not good at math and no rush; will wait .

[Salmon Trout]

Rolls eyes.



 

[patio]

We're stressing out ? ?...you got a qualified well stated answer here.

[BC_Programmer]

Lets not stress out

Nobody here is "stressing out". It is just hard to comprehend that somebody could be so vacuous as to be told the rather straightforward arithmetic to their problem, but because they are "bad at math" decides they will instead wait for somebody to spoonfeed the answer. The reason you are "Bad at Math" might be related to the fact that you refuse to do it.

It was fairly straightforward arithmetic. If you are waiting for somebody to do it for you and provide the answer, you will be waiting a while. Willful Ignorance does not tend to be encouraged.

[patio]

Or as was stated in Shawshank Redemption...."How can you be so obtuse" ...? ?

30 days in the hole.

[Salmon Trout]

Check his posts. The OP posted more or less exactly the same question 1 year ago, and got the same treatment, and still has not worked it out.Who prints e-books anyhow? The toner/ink and paper would cost more than going to the bookstore, surely? Even better a public library. Can't you just get in the e-book reader and see how many pages there are? They usually have numbers in the corner, so find the last one and bingo!

[patio]

BTW...i love the arithmetic clarification....

[Salmon Trout]

it bugs me when people think arithmetic and mathematics are the same thing. Arithmetic is to mathematics as spelling is to writing.

[camerongray]

Wait, why do you even need to know this, surely you can just check the file size.

The formula given for plain text is hardly difficult, I'm sure you are capable of working a calculator... Why should we do it for you?

The simple formula will also only work for plain text (.txt file), it is impossible to work out the file size of it if it includes any sort of formatting, fonts, layout, compression.etc such as in a word document or PDF file.

Drives me mental when people just want a numerical answer and totally reject helpful advice that attempts to explain how it all actually works...