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It blows our hivemind that the United States doesn’t use the ISO 216 paper size standard (A4, A5 and the gang).

Like, we consider ourselves worldly people and are aware of America’s little idiosyncrasies like mass incarceration, the widespread availability of assault weapons and not being able to transfer money via your banking app, but come on - look how absolutely great it is to be European:

The American mind cannot comprehend this diagram

[Diagram of paper sizes as listed below]

ISO 216 A series papers formats

AO

A1

A3

A5

A7

A6

Et.

A4

Instead, Americans prostrate themselves to bizarrely-named paper types of seemingly random size: Letter, Legal, Tabloid (Ledger) and all other types of sordid nonsense. We’re not even going to include a picture because this is a family-friendly finance blog.

Source: Financial Times

    • Reddfugee42@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      This is about as beautiful as a meter stick compared to a yardstick.

      As in they both do a job, who cares

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        6 months ago

        Meter is not a stick. It is distance light travels in 1 / 299 792 458 of a second. And second is 9192 631 770 oscillations of Caesium-133.

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          6 months ago

          IDK what the poster said, but there was a 1m stick used as a reference, in Paris IIRC, before lasers n stuff was invented.

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            6 months ago

            Yes, there was. Now you can make your own stick.