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Originally Posted by ceptimus
It's possible to buy sheets of paper larger than A0. One of twice the area is called 2A0 and one twice as big as that is called 4A0. This system of naming the larger formats doesn't fit well with the naming scheme of the smaller sizes - the person who came up with those large format designations was no mathematician.  |
Urmmm, why? Correct me if I'm wrong but if if 2A0 is twice the size of A0 then 4A0, being twice the size of 2A0 is logically four times the size of A0. I agree that it doesn't fit the smaller names, but from a mathematical point of view the larger size names work perfectly.
