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Page counts make historic sense in publishing, especially when you consider that coupled with font size and relatively standard conventions for line spacing etc most publishers could probably estimate it quite easily. When typewriters became (essentially) computers and could start producing word counts the profession itself didn’t change overnight. In the early computer era when everything was memory limited rough estimates were fine. Teachers were fine with “3 pages handwritten / in font size 12” level specificity. Word counts weren’t relevant for the most part until NLP.
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