John wrote an excellent posting about ISO paper sizes.  However he made one
slight error.

>if you did need to know, you can easily
>calculate any of the sizes from the simple area formula: A=LxW.  If A is 1
>(for 1 m") and L=sqrt(2)*W, then 1=sqrt(2)*W" or W=841 mm and L=1189 mm.
>Dividing each of these dimensions by the A number gives the length and width
>of that A size.

He should have written "Dividing each of these dimensions by 2**A-numkber
gives the length and width of that A-size".

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