Mark. Anyone in the United States can buy A4 paper. Metric Pioneer
even has free shipping!
http://metricpioneer.com/shop/a4-size-paper/
David Pearl MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917
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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:49:20 -0500
From: Henschel
I was listening to As It Happens from the CBC last night. A French Canadian
marine biologist was being interviewed about a whale constrained by a crab pot
that they were trying to free.
When asked how big the crab pot was, he unreservedly used feet instead of
meters. :-(
After all these
Ezra. I share your sentiment. I watch the BBC and Al Jazeera news on
TV nearly every day. Al Jazeera typically gives reports using SI units
but every now and then some reporter gives a measurement in feet for
some odd reason. The BBC seems to be rather haphazard when it comes to
I hope Al Jazeera America continues to report exclusively in SI
measurements even for their American audience. I hope they don't dumb
it down for Americans.
David Pearl MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917
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Hello — It’s a busy week for us at Al Jazeera America. Not only are we
We always have to remember that some of these guys grew up in feet an inches
(especially in Canada) and its very hard to break old habits. Now if the guy
was say under 30 (maybe even under 40) Id have a bigger issue.
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From: owner-u...@colostate.edu
Staples, OfficeMax, and Office Depot at least offer it online, and some of
their
BM stores carry it.
From: cont...@metricpioneer.com cont...@metricpioneer.com
To: U.S. Metric Association usma@colostate.edu
Cc: U.S. Metric Association usma@colostate.edu
Apparently there is a significant amount of literature on Canons of
Page Construction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canons_of_page_construction
Some folks assert that medieval page size and design was base on the
Golden Ratio (modern symbol, lowercase phi):
phi = (1 +
On Friday, June 14, 2013 17:51:28 James Frysinger wrote:
But we also know that the A series is no more SI-based than my
Great-Aunt Penelope's petunia patch. So, this is indeed an off-topic
email. Apologies given, if you feel you deserve them. Grin.
An A0 sheet is one square meter (minus 51
A0 = 1 square meter (but it's not a square). If paper is 80g/sq m (sorry
for no superscript, it's late), then it weights 80 g.
A1 = half a square meter = 40 g
A2 = quarter square meter = 20 g
A3 = eighth square meter = 10 g
A4 = sixteenth square meter = 5 g
So if your country ups the postage
