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13 years old! Most likely, its content is outdated.
Especially if it's technical.
Here's a nifty little program that counts the number of words in a LaTeX document. This isn't always obvious because a LaTeX document will most likely contain other words that are just LaTeX commands.
Did this on my 25-pages dissertation and the result was: 6710
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I just want to signal the project moved to Sourceforge now.
Go now to http://lwc.sourceforge.net
Article by Chuck Rothman on how to obtain a word count for a work of fiction ready
... Press the "Word Count" button on your word processor and there it is. ...