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Re:Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size by thechao on Monday September 05, 2022 @10:18AM (#32724583)
It's 1795, and you're a farmer asked to build a ruler based on divide-by-10, or divide-by-2. Anyone with a compass can do the latter; the former is nearly impossible.
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