I heard that Bava Basra is the longest masechta in blatt but Brochos is the longest mesechta in words. Did anyone else hear anything about that?

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What most likely got this rumor started is that Brachos does have and lots of pages with minimal commentary. Brachos does in fact (according to my calculations) take the record for most Talmudic text per page.

words/daf       letters/daf     words       letters     daf     mesechta
ברכות       63      273260      70254       4337.46     1115.14
כריתות      27      102234      26328       3786.44     975.11
הוריות      13      49035       12632       3771.92     971.69
מגילה       31      115271      28939       3718.42     933.52
סנהדרין     112     406013      104357      3625.12     931.76
תענית       30      106087      26691       3536.23     889.7
מועד_קטן        28      89722       22554       3204.36     805.5
סוטה        48      152615      39149       3179.48     815.6
ערכין       33      98096       24815       2972.61     751.97
מכות        23      67782       17608       2947.04     765.57
שבת     156     447232      113820      2866.87     729.62
קידושין     81      231631      59256       2859.64     731.56
חגיגה       26      73506       18533       2827.15     712.81
בבא_מציעא       118     330417      84375       2800.14     715.04
בבא_קמא     118     328313      83973       2782.31     711.64
עבודה_זרה       75      207188      51851       2762.51     691.35
תמורה       33      91112       23065       2760.97     698.94
נידה        72      197171      50118       2738.49     696.08
יבמות       121     330319      84486       2729.91     698.23
ראש_השנה        34      92621       23376       2724.15     687.53
פסחים       120     324521      82335       2704.34     686.13
גיטין       89      238946      60832       2684.79     683.51
בכורות      60      160117      40587       2668.62     676.45
שבועות      48      127686      32717       2660.13     681.6
מנחות       109     288694      73203       2648.57     671.59
כתובות      111     288903      73398       2602.73     661.24
יומא        87      225512      57180       2592.09     657.24
עירובין     104     264202      67238       2540.4      646.52
ביצה        39      97777       24918       2507.1      638.92
חולין       141     351691      89555       2494.26     635.14
סוכה        55      127774      32302       2323.16     587.31
זבחים       119     273681      69345       2299.84     582.73
תמיד        9       18449       4610        2049.89     512.22
בבא_בתרא        175     346249      89044       1978.57     508.82
נזיר        65      108571      27984       1670.32     430.52
מעילה       21      32255       8064        1535.95     384
נדרים       90      134935      34475       1499.28     383.06
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Where did you find that? – SimchasTorah Aug 26 '10 at 23:14
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Downloaded the texts from mechon mamre, and wrote a computer program to count everything. – Shalom Aug 27 '10 at 1:20
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Thanks for doing some real empirical research, Shalom. – Tzvi Aug 27 '10 at 13:22
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No, Shabbos is the longest.

See the comments here: http://mi.yodeya.com/questions/2184/shelosha-veshishim-mi-yodeya/2208#2208

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So at least I'm not the only one who heard the debunked Brachos rumor ... I wonder where it came from. – Shalom Aug 26 '10 at 21:52
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