While walking into the bookstore at my local university today I was looking at the bound spiral notebooks for a replacement because I'd filled the previous one with all sorts of fun math equations.
This was an adventure in odd units, and I saw ten by eight, eleven by nine, eight and a half by eleven, ten by thirteen, and probably a couple other inch measures that I missed in the pile. My question is why are there so many other inch formats besides the standard 8.5x11? And while we're on the topic, I also noticed that all our printers and scanners and copiers at work can use the A4 series papers and the B series SI paper formats. I was kind of surprised at this but I've never seen metric paper sold or available anywhere in the US. It's nice to see it's there though if the US ever decides to switch For the record I settled on the 279mm x 228mm (11x9in) size :). I also discovered that if you type 11in into Google and hit enter the first thing you see is the conversion to centimeters. Apparently it's so common to do that that Google just assumes that's what you want. Mike -- "The boy is dangerous, they all sense it why can't you?"
