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Whats with the +10, +25, -10, etc. on the paginated documents where the pages are listed?

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Whats with the +10, +25, -10, etc. on the paginated documents where the pages are listed?

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A. They are to let you jump several pages forward or backward at once. The +10 simply means to jump forward ten pages, or usually a count of 100 of something as often, there are ten objects per page. -10 means to jump backwards ten pages or go back 100 objects. The numbers without a plus or minus sign simply indicate the page number to visit. Anything past 5 steps is dumped to prevent from having to have gigantic file sizes from listing a hundred links or so. A typical link takes about 60 bytes. If there were 100 pages, this could mean 6 kilobytes in links, which is merely pointless. This feature no longer applies, except to old documents that haven’t been updated since around October 2005. SHTML has given me the solution to the issue. If I edit just one file, all pages get changed. I only need to just remember to change the links. Plus, since the file has already been downloaded, there is no additional bandwidth used for each new page viewed so it also happens to save bandwidth, even

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