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Re:The hidden ways that architecture affects the way you feel by matthewmcg on Friday June 09, 2017 @01:52PM (#14523048)
Paper sizes might be a better example of this since the only difference is the dimensions. Something about the relative dimensions of A4 paper just looks nicer to me.

(I know the ISO sizes are based on the golden ratio, but I think this probably has more to do with me being a lawyer practicing in the United States. PerhapsUS-Letter and Legal sizes subconsciously read as "work" to me and A4 reads as exotic.)

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Re:The hidden ways that architecture affects the way you feel by kps on Friday June 09, 2017 @05:57PM (#14524915) 

  > the ISO sizes are based on the golden ratio
No, 1:√2. (A golden rectangle divides into a golden rectangle plus a square; an ISO rectangle divides into two ISO rectangles.)
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