I'm sad that the author didn't do a manual word count. If it's only 1660 words or so, it would surely take less time than it took to write this post. It would p

I'm sad that the author didn't do a manual word count. If it's only 1660 words or so, it would surely take less time than it took to write this post. It would probably make the author confront the difficulty in precisely defining word count. It turns out that a lot of things that initially seem trivial to precisely define aren't actually that precisely defined, like the length of the california coastline. This is, in my mind--and as a complete tangent--a great argument for wide programming and math education. When you're forced to be so goddamned precise all the time, it's very clear when an idea isn't fully defined.