You’re right. Sorry for getting my post-7pm arithmetic skills on you. However, my point still stands. ‘Close’ is not ‘conforming’ to the standard.

I didn’t know Euro and Farad were related :O

I’m German. If the pages are a comfortable size, why does no publisher ever use A5 or A4 paper? To quote an answer I gave to another comment here:

Let’s check. I grabbed four random German books from my bookshelf. If you’re right, the pages should either be roughly 30cm×21cm (A4) or 15cm×10.5cm [Edit: 21cm × 15cm] (A5).

Book 1: 18cm × 11.5; book 2: 19cm×12.5cm; book 3: 20.5cm × 12.5cm; book 4: 24cm × 17cm. None of those conform to the standard.

Another hint that the paper format is weird is that scientific papers on A4 are always either printed in two columns or use the ninths rule for margins, i.e. 1/9 of margin on the inner and upper edges and 2/9 of margin on the outer and bottom edges, essentially throwing away almost half of the page (I’ll admit there are more economic recommendations of 1/11 or 1/13). This is to make the columns narrower to get closer to the target of 60–80 characters per line. Note also that this makes the ‘usable’ area approximately 20cm long, which is much closer to the American’s ‘Legal’ format (216mm).

almost all consumer printers are for a4.

I never said A4 wasn’t the standard. I said it’s not a good one.

books in a4 size actually consist of a3 sheets bound together in the middle. (same with other sized books)

Let’s check. I grabbed four random German books from my bookshelf. If you’re right, the pages should either be roughly 30cm×21cm (A4) or 15cm×10.5cm [Edit: 21cm × 15cm] (A5).

Book 1: 18cm × 11.5; book 2: 19cm×12.5cm; book 3: 20.5cm × 12.5cm; book 4: 24cm × 17cm. None of those conform to the standard.

To be fair, A4 yields unwieldy pages that are too long to comfortably read. And when do you ever need the feature to fold an A4 sheet into A5?

*For small values of 5.

This comparison also works because the Jolly Roger instills fear in people, even if the pirates don’t do anything.

Sounds like a win to me. If making the list gives you motivation, this might help overcome the initial inertia.

If you really do want to do something, but can’t get your limbs to move, try making a list. Crossing things off that helps providing motivation.

Sure, act like Wikipedia hasn’t written all your school essays since 5th grade.

Hey guys, listen up. The scraps Amazon is giving me are insufficient to make ends meet. UNIONS ARE THE PROBLEM!

Just in case: Only shoot flare guns when you see or hear rescuers. Those things are only visible for about a minute. You want people to actually be around for that and not just make pretty lights.

If she’s sleeping on the bus, she’s most definitely not sleeping well at night (or whenever her sleepytime is).

I have the opposite experience. I noticed that my arms had a tendency to “roll outwards” when using normal mice, so I switched to a vertical one. Most uncomfortable mouse I’ve ever had. Switched back after 2 weeks.

More like: “This weird hat and long beard must suffice for the first two years of our relationship.”

I used to think this was common knowledge. Commandment 11: Every zipper and every button shall be closed before washing.

• I know just the person you should make out with.

• So who crossed you this time?

These are all about the supposed link between milk and autism, not vaccines and autism.

I’ve never heard peta mentioned in this context. Source?

I hope the evidence is more substantial than the “link” between vaccines and autism…