Re:Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size
by timbit42 on Monday September 05, 2022 @10:12AM
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It would be much more beautiful if it were based on 12 instead of 10. Of course, this would require humanity to switch to dozenal, which will never happen unless almost everyone dies and someone enforces it on the few that remain to repopulate the planet.
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Re:Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size
by andruby on Monday September 05, 2022 @10:31AM
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Could you expand why base-12 is more beautiful than base-10? Is it because it has more divisors? If so, why not base-2?
Re:Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size
by timbit42 on Monday September 05, 2022 @10:28PM
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Yes, many more divisors than 10 which is divisible by only 2 and 5 but not by 3, 4, or 6. If you need to divide by 5 but not by 4, you can use 30, or if you need both 5 and 4, you can use 60.