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Britannica CD 2.0

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Numbers

There are:

• 716 Long, detailed articles, with a total of 40538 pages, in the Macropaedia.
• 67884 Concise articles in the Micropaedia.
• 1741 Figures and 481 tables.
• 9955 pages in the Propaedia.
• 219238 pages in the Encyclopaedia Index.
• 73414 Word definitios in the Merriam-Webster's dictionary.

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 [Última actualización: 04/11/2008 ]