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alt-textIt 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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I dunno, it doesn’t look so good once you get to “Etc.” size.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

do they go down to A -1, A -2 and so on

[–] brbposting 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Even smaller?!

Edit: wait they’d be bigger

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No just A0, A1, etc. A5 being for cards, A4 being the average used in schoolbooks and such, with A3 mainly used for posters, never seen anything larger in everyday life.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Ad posters on the street are usually A2 to A0

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

TIL that there are different standards of paper sizes in other parts of the world. I never encountered this before despite living in Germany for 10 years, probably because the last time I was there was 30 years ago.

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