It's a 50 page body page limit, but that doesn't include pre and post face, with appendixes that takes it up to 160 pages.
Then there's the supplementary CD that makes it about another 300 odd with all my source code and data.
Add on many diagrams...
Two things to be happy about, someone doing a purely theoretical piece for their MEng only has 11 references, someone else on the BEng section only has four on the equivalent report. I have 43; including three interviews.
There was also four other people working on similar projects for the same software suite, and I'm the only one who got it working. Ego Boost
Will scare the hell out of them when they see the printed report, it's about as thick as some PhD Thesis I have seen on the External Examiner's shelf... (Supervisor doesn't supervise anything above BEng and MEng projects, no MSc or PhD, although he is able to supervise MSc, he doesn't)
Partly because it's 80 pages thick (160 sides) and partly because it's on 120gsm paper
Anyways, what's this 10,000 words for, BEng, BA, BSc, MEng, MA, MSc, BSci, BMath, MSci, MMath?
EDIT:
Make you feel slightly better...
Body Text: 15,005 words, 79,077/93,570 Chars in 776 paragraphs.
Full Report: 28,560 words 160,624/187,962 Chars in 3,040 paragraphs (Excluding Appendix 1)
Appendix 1 is my progress report at:
5,372 words, 31,590/37,053 Chars in 539 Paragraphs...
So the whole thing in total is actually...
33,932 Words...
PS: This is longer than most EngD Theses...