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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: More physical source files
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2015 13:14:03 -0700
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James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> writes:
> On 07/06/2015 02:59 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
> ...
>> A note at the bottom of the last page of the C99 PDF says "Price based
>> on 537 pages"; a similar note at the end of the C11 PDF says "Price
>> based on 457 pages".  I don't know what that's about.
>
> Part of that seems very clear to me, part of it is not. I'm not sure
> whether your "I don't know" is about both parts, or just the latter.
>
> The implication of those words is that they have an algorithm for
> determining the price that depends upon the number of pages, and that
> the number of pages used for the purposes of that algorithm is smaller
> for some reason, than the actual number of pages. The unclear part is
> the nature of the algorithm, and the reason why certain pages don't count.

I was mostly bewildered by the fact that C11 is much longer than C99,
but the "price based on" count for C11 is *smaller* than for C99.

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