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Ant_222 Posted 18 years ago
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Is there such an adjective...

0 ... that could be used instead of the somewhat more cumbersome construction:02br
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00 «A booklet, if it consists of a single signature, may have any number of pages 01i00that is a multiple of four02i00.»02br
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00 I want to replace the marked part with something shorter, like «a four-multiple number of pages» (as in "a 5-minute break"). Is it possible?02br
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00 P.S.: Hello all! 0-
  

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1blockquote 01cite 10Ant_22212cite 10... »12br 12br 10 I want to replace the marked part with something shorter, like «a four-multiple number of pages» (as in "a 5-minute break"). 12blockquote 10I don't think there is a single word to express the meaning you want.

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  • 1blockquote 01cite 10Ant_22212cite 10...
  • »12br 12br 10 I want to replace the marked part with something shorter, like «a four-multiple number of pages» (as in "a 5-minute break").
  • 12blockquote 10I don't think there is a single word to express the meaning you want.
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01cite10Ant_22212cite10... that could be used instead of the somewhat more cumbersome construction:12br
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10 «A booklet, if it consists of a single signature, may have any number of pages 11i10that is a multiple of four12i10.»12br
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10 I want to replace the marked part with so
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0 Well, there's "divisible by" or in this case you would have to say "evenly divisible by" to be clear, I think. 02br
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00A booklet consisting of a single signature may have any number of pages evenly divisible by four.02br
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00If a booklet consists of a single signature, the number of pages must be evenly divisible
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0 Thanks for the suggestions!02br
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00 I, too, like Ray's sentence the best. 0-
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0Can you explain the single-signature part?02br
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00(The number of pages in a booklet must be [divisible by four] [a multiple of four].)0-
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0Barb, forgive me if I'm telling you something you already know, but it's got to do with the mechanics of folding a single printed sheet of paper to make the pages of the book. If I understand the process correctly, each single large sheet, or "signature," used to have a number printed in the corner which was there to make collating easier later on. Occasionally you run across these stray number
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0 GG, I should thank you for your curiousity!02br
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00 I didn't understand what a signature is, and, therefore my sentence is not correct, because a signature may have only a round binary number pages:02br
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00 100 — 4.02br
00 1000 — 8.02br
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00 That being said, my sentence sounds a b
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