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by diarrhea 1431 days ago
That might be the shortest (in word count) Master's thesis I have ever seen!
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Claude Shannon's masters thesis was quite short as well [0], around 25 pages!

[0] https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/greatworks/shannon38.pdf

Looks typical for a master's thesis to me. Maybe you're thinking of a PhD thesis?
No, in my industry (mechanical engineering) Master (and also Bachelor) theses were always much, much longer. Longer lines, less vertical line spacing, many more pages. Lots of faffing about ('Introduction', 'State of the Art', 'Theoretical foundation', ...). Faculties urge supervisors and students to keep it below 100 pages (of relatively dense type).
Agreed on the formatting of mine being ridiculous with huge margins and line spacing, it wasn't my choice.
Ha well the mechanization was a nontrivial amount of work (for me at least) and was considered part of it too. If it's still short despite that, then welp I guess I got lucky somehow.