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I had no idea the scale of reference works in the pre-computer age - "574 pages of which are given over to the index, which contains about 124,000
entries."
— Sep 01, 2020 10:07PM
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John
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Going through the list of exercises for use of reference material, I think the internet has made the average case much better (I didn't have to go to a library) but there are still lots of types of queries that we don't have good tooling for.
— Sep 01, 2020 10:59PM
John
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And it took 71 years to complete the Oxford English Dictionary, despite having at least 1300 people working on it at one point
— Sep 01, 2020 10:27PM
