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Originally Posted by Daniel Hetberg  The 10 words per line are taken on average, I trust? Like, the average english word has 5-6 characters, plus one space or punctuation, leading to 60-70 characters per line? |
That's pretty much it. If you google, you'll find a variety of techniques for calculating the word count of a manuscript. Exact word counts, as generated by word-processing programs, are frowned on.