Henry Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > For the exact same reason you should switch to the metric system... > > Unfortunately, there isn't the same incentive. Paper size is basically > arbitrary; it doesn't impinge on everything else the way the units system > does. There's nothing magic about 210x297mm that makes anything easier.
But there is! Firstly, if you cut a piece of A4 paper into two halves, each has the same proportions as A4. Secondly, a piece of An paper has area 1/2**n of a square metre. Standard photocopier paper weighs 80 grams a square metre, so a piece of A4 weights 5 g, and airmail postage rates go in steps of 5 g or 10 g ... Of course, it's not really 210x297mm; it's more like 210.224x297.302mm. Edmund -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
