Usor:Harrissimo/Weight

Caesar, Commentaries on the Gallic War (first 10 chapters):

• Character count (no spaces)
  • English: 10,544
  • Latin: 8,203
  • Latin is 78% length of English

Cicero, Ad Familiares (Book 1, Chapter 1)

• Character count (no spaces)
  • English: 3,271
  • Latin: 2,369
  • Latin is 72% length of English

Newton, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Book 1, Chapter 1, First 3 lemmata)

• • English: 2,295
  • Latin: 1,959
  • Latin is 85% length of English

Tacitus, Germania (first 10 chapters):

• Character count (no spaces)
  • English: 9,640
  • Latin: 7,614
  • Latin is 79% length of English

Varro, On Agriculture (first 10 chapters):

• Character count (no spaces)
  • English: 33,289
  • Latin: 27,064
  • Latin is 81% length of English

So overall, the Latin pages are on average (mean) 79% the length of the English pages.

(78+72+85+79+81) divided by 5 = 79.