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Don’t bother, it seems the metric are allergic to fractions that aren’t irrational.
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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.
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They do tile, they just don’t share an aspect ratio. Two letter sheets make a tabloid or ledger sheet (depending on grain direction of the paper), and two tabloid sheets fit on a broadsheet, which generally comes in rolls so there’s a bit of trim because the size comes from actually physically dealing with paper, which is why they’re also the names of the newspapers that were printed on them. Like, it doesn’t go down from letter like ISO a sizes do, but it generally works well enough.
Good thing Americans don’t use metric, that sure would be an awkward size.
US printers also do this, just using larger ANSI sizes instead of larger A sizes. Or they just use rolls.
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.
No one memed on Elon when he shut down his tracker? Or Kylie Jenner for the 3 minute flight?
Not that hard you just have to do it 135000 times.
Mid tbh.But really: true. I guess I associate this meme with clowning on him but it doesn’t get used that way as much now, and Calvin is probably better because of that.
Is being a meme template a good thing?
Sorry I’m too lazy to look up a source, but the way I’ve heard it explained is that while they might occasionally give them to sick animals as a sort of panacea, they often just give all of them a low dose. Apparently it like, makes their immune system not have to work as hard so they gain weight faster. Which is basically textbook how to make resistant bacteria.