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It's a beautiful standard that works wonderfully until you have to deal with any actual measurements. 210 x 297 mm - so easy to remember and divide.
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Letter is 215.9mm x 279.4mm lmao
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Good thing Americans don't use metric, that sure would be an awkward size.
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No it's 8.5 by 11.
See? Easy. Also you really have to try to get your hands on something that's a different size. 99 percent of printer paper is Letter.
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8.5" is not any easier to divide than 297mm. Try dividing 8.5" by 8. What is that? 12 pebbles and 14 glibglobs each?
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1" and a sixteenth.
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Ah yes - a system that uses both fractions and decimals!
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Don't bother, it seems the metric are allergic to fractions that aren't irrational.
^/s
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It's 1.06 Which is close enough to just do 1 inch cuts. Super easy. No possible better way to do it.
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The only time I ever encountered letter was when I bought the D&D starter set.
I was confused as to why the paper had this weird size. Then I remember it being a game made in the US.
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Well that solves it if WOTC used it then we need to get rid of it. Burn it in a fire. And we'll need a new standard now. We could use the ISO standard but Western Union just handed me a thousand bucks to base it off telegram cards. Oh well.
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Excuse me, I believe you meant to say:
215 57/64mm x 279 38/96 mm
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i mean, i've never needed to divide the size of a standard sheet of paper - if i need a smaller variant, i can just fold it in half and cut it. when working with paper, it's pretty easy to do physical math, and you rarerly need something that's perfect down to the millimetre
regarding the size- it's just something you learn through life. school supplies lists typically specify the size of notebooks and paper you need to buy in centimetres, so year over year, you quickly learn that A4 is 22:29.7, and the slightly bigger standard notebooks are 24:32
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so year over year, you quickly learn that A4 is 22:29.7, and the slightly bigger standard notebooks are 24:32
Pretty sure you just justified Americans using Fahrenheit ;)
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how so?
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Arbitrary numbers become habit
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i mean, celsius has arbitrary numbers too - human is 37°c, ambiant is 17°c, cooking is 180°c, etc.
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You forgot the /s
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A4 is rectangle with 1:sqrt(2) aspect ratio and 1/16 m^2 area.
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1/16? That doesn't seem very metric. They should have made it a tenth like everything else metric. That would be an easy system.
^/s
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I don’t disagree! And in the interest of fairness I feel compelled to include an obligatory xkcd:
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300-3 isn't that hard to remember. also i don't know why you would need to divide it. they're both divisible by 3 if that helps.
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