On Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003, at 15:26 US/Eastern, chris wrote:
>> 3 + 5/8 if you're going to start inside V1 and they're all 1" thick
>> and 5
>> covers to go through.
>
> wouldn't it be 3.5 inches? Starts page 1 vol 1, ends last page vol 3,
> so
> that's only 4 covers to go thru (back of vol 1, front of vol 2, back of
> vol 2, front vol 3).
>
> So that's 3 books of pages at 1 inch per book, 3 * 1 = 3
> 4 covers at 1/8 per cover is 4 * 1/8 = 4/8 = 1/2
>
> 3 inches of text + 1/2 inch of covers = 3.5 inches that the worm
> travels.
>
> -chris
> <http://www.mythtech.net>
>
>
if the books are in normal array on a shelf:
back cover of vol1 | last page of vol1 | vol1 | START = 1st page of
vol1 -> front cover of vol1 -> back cover of vol2 -> vol2 -> front
cover of vol2 -> back cover of vol3 -> last page of vol3 = END | vol3 |
front cover of vol3 ----- so 4 covers and i volume for the journey -
billp
Received on Wed Sep 10 2003 - 15:11:00 BST