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Comment by pbhjpbhj

1 year ago

You cut an A4 to get A5, wasting 1mm ...; two sheets of A4 in an A3 ... there's only one pair of dimensions to remember.

Write the sizes in binary and bit-shift them?

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pbhjpbhj

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e12e  1 year ago

Wasting one mm?

  • wizzwizz4  1 year ago

    They're rounded to the nearest mm because the tolerances are about a millimetre, so there's no point specifying the paper size better than that.

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