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Re:Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size by midasuni on Monday September 05, 2022 @06:24AM (#32722658)
A kilowatt hour is 1000 joules per second over 3600 seconds, the amount of power a 1kW heater uses in 1 hour. Its as metric as the hectare
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Re:Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size by HPsquared on Monday September 05, 2022 @06:42AM (#32722787)
And 1 Joule is one Newton-metre (i.e. it takes 1 J to pull with a force of 1 N over a distance 1 m).
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Re:Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size by anonymous_sorry on Monday September 05, 2022 @07:20AM (#32723074)
You are right. Is say it is metric, if not standard SI.
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