I'm honestly shocked by anyone south of the US not using the SI system considering they use metric otherwise.
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Why is it ledger or tabloid? Why do I have to remember the orientation?
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No more PC LOAD LETTER.
"'PC LOAD LETTER'? The fuck does that mean?!"
I’d argue 8.5" isn’t even used. Half an inch is 12.7mm, 8.5" ≈ 215.9mm. Most machines are calibrated using SI, so they’ll do ~216mm instead, and then what’s the point, just discard US Letter
Only used A sizes through my academic career. I know that was a long time ago but even going to stores they list a4/5 as sizes.
So we could save some trees if we all agreed to one standard size??
No, but we could definitely save some trees if we had less papers and more online systems… providing they're done correctly and not leaking around everyone's data.
No, I have no idea why you came to this conclusion?
Typical Siberia and Greenland doing a lot of work here
On the other hand Nunavut is hidden behind the A4.
I want to use uninhabitable wasteland to decide my stationary shape as much as the next guy, but this is pure deceit.
(US standard is horrendous btw)
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