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Re:Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size by krzyk on Monday September 05, 2022 @06:02AM (#32722482)
> there are no natural objects that weight around one kilogram

Yes there is: a liter of water (see the beauty?)

> Europeans give up decimal comma and US gives up imperial measurements. Everyone wins.

And US gives up strange day-in-the-middle date format as a bonus to make everyone there sane.

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Re:Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size by beefield on Monday September 05, 2022 @06:22AM (#32722638)
> Yes there is: a liter of water (see the beauty?)

There was /s at the end of the sentence, meaning I was sarcastic:)

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Re:Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size by MiddleEndian on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @12:48PM (#32739725)
>And US gives up strange day-in-the-middle date format as a bonus to make everyone there sane.

We should all switch to the ISO (and some (most?) Asian country) format of Year-Month-Day.

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