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What does "2 Pages (front and back)" mean? What does it mean by "page front and back" if a page by definition is one side of a sheet?
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What does "2 Pages (front and back)" mean? What does it mean by "page front and back" if a page by definition is one side of a sheet? People are often not very precise about such things.
- What does "2 Pages (front and back)" mean?
- What does it mean by "page front and back" if a page by definition is one side of a sheet?
- People are often not very precise about such things.
- I am sure they meant two sheets of paper front and back.
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What does "2 Pages (front and back)" mean? What does it mean by "page front and back" if a page by definition is one side of a sheet?
People are often not very precise about such things. I am sure they meant two sheets of paper front and back.
0The word "page" is used in two different ways.
First, a page is a single sheet of paper. So, in this context, two pages = two sheets of paper.
Second, page has a different meaning now in the context of printing a document. Two-sided printers were very costly in the early days, and few people could afford one, so there was no difference in meaning then. All documents were printed
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