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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3375810, member: 56859&quot;]From Wiktionary:</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><b>Etymology</b></font></p><p>Abbreviation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" rel="nofollow">Latin</a> <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/folio#Latin" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/folio#Latin" rel="nofollow">folio</a></i> (“on the (next) page”), ablative of <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/folium#Latin" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/folium#Latin" rel="nofollow">folium</a></i> (“leaf, page”).</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><b>Abbreviation</b></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><b>ff.</b></p><ol> <li>and the following (pages, paragraphs etc.)</li> </ol><p><font size="3"><b>Usage notes</b></font></p><ul> <li>The abbreviation <i>ff.</i> is used in citation to refer to a section for which no final page number can usefully be given. When used, <i>ff.</i> has no space between it and the preceding number and is followed by a full stop. If there is only a single section following, <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/f.#English" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/f.#English" rel="nofollow">f.</a></i> may be used instead.</li> <li>More properly, it is still used, as originally, to refer to the next page or pages in a citation. As such, Hornblower 258f. would refer to pages 258–259 while 258ff. would refer to an undetermined number of pages following page 258.</li> <li>When using a book reference to find a topic, one may encounter one or more <i>ff.</i> references, one or more <i>f.</i> references, and one or more normal references. Since an <i>ff.</i> reference means the topic is mentioned over several pages starting at the page number preceding the <i>ff.</i>, it is normally useful to start with the <i>ff.</i> reference(s), followed by the <i>f.</i> reference(s), and then the normal references.</li> </ul><p>...</p><p><br /></p><p>I think in the context of a RIC number, it means there is an unspecified range of RIC numbers beginning with the stated number.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hopefully someone will correct me if I&#039;ve misunderstood this abbreviation![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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