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A professor of mine insisted that presentations have not only page numbers, but also the total number of pages (like this: 4/17), so that he knew how much longer he'd have to listen to this... :-)
I do this for business presentations, but especially at conferences to give attendees hope. It includes a progress bar.
Page numbers are slightly annoying in the modern age of PDFs: there's the visual / physical / internal document (?) page number of what the document would have if printed out, and then there's the page number of the file. Never quite sure what reference.
> The chapters and pages are numbered backwards in the book, beginning with Chapter 47 on page 289 and ending with page 1 of Chapter 1.
This omnipresent clock ended up being a clever, subtle way to continually build tension for the reader.
Chuck Palahniuk's novel Survivor inverts the role of the page number, turning it into a countdown toward the climax. From Wikipedia: > The chapters and pages are numbered backwards in the book, beginning with Chapter 47 on page 289 and ending with page 1 of Chapter 1. This omnipresent clock ended up being a clever, subtle way to continually build tension for the reader.
And in fact that was better, with computers that's often better. So literature and cinema, the concept of suspense, actually improved science AND made good television at the same time.
For boxing they should count down from ten to zero, in fact.
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I do this for business presentations, but especially at conferences to give attendees hope. It includes a progress bar.
Please tell me you also do the classic Microsoft progress bar... 0/100 50/100 95/100 97/100 98/100 99/100 99.5/100
Chuck Palahniuk's novel Survivor inverts the role of the page number, turning it into a countdown toward the climax. From Wikipedia: > The chapters and pages are numbered backwards in the book, beginning with Chapter 47 on page 289 and ending with page 1 of Chapter 1. This omnipresent clock ended up being a clever, subtle way to continually build tension for the reader.
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Page numbers are slightly annoying in the modern age of PDFs: there's the visual / physical / internal document (?) page number of what the document would have if printed out, and then there's the page number of the file. Never quite sure what reference.
Page numbering is dying. Ebook readers often don't show any page numbers. IETF RFCs are losing their page numbers. I don't like it.