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Re:Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size by defrost on Monday September 05, 2022 @05:22AM (#32722187)
The irony there being that the US was in fact one of the first early adopters of the metric system, metric being the official weights and measure system within the USofA and the US foot being literally defined in terms of the underlying base metre.
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Re:Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size by vidarh on Monday September 05, 2022 @06:44AM (#32722798)
Not just adopter: The US was one of the original 17 signatories of the Metre Convention in 1875.
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Re:Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size by 2muchcoffeeman on Monday September 05, 2022 @05:29AM (#32722235)
All imperial units have now been redefined in terms of metric.
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