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Subject: Re: AKICIF: The Shape of Asterix
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On 9/14/2024 9:15 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Paul Dormer <prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk> wrote:
>> (Amusing fact.  The height divided by the width of a sheet of A4 is
>> almost exactly the square root of 2.  Turn a sheet of A4 to landscape and
>> cut it in half and you have two sheets of A5.  Put two sheets of A4 next
>> to each other and you get a sheet of A3.)
> 
> It is a harmonized system, and is referenced to a specific sheet size which
> was manufactured by hand on a screen and then sliced down for different
> uses.
> 
> We have a similar arrangement in the US where 11x17 sheets turn into two
> 8.5x11 sheets which turn into two 5.5x8.5 sheets and so forth, except that
> they all have names many of which today are mostly meaningless....
> 
> And then we have book sizes which were all functions of the original
> folio size but with the coming of rotary presses are all different now...
> --scott
> --scott

On the American sizes go up two steps (17*22, and 22*34 (actually a 34 
inch role) and you get standard drafting paper sizes (and news print)).

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