• Why make it a card then? If it’s meant to be stored as a document then it should be the size of an envelope, or a standard A4 sheet.

    I keep mine attached to the envelope sized paper it came on. But it shouldn’t be a card shape, that encourages people to carry it. My grandpa always carried his.

    • @agent_flounder@lemmy.world
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      02 years ago

      Idk. Maybe because there’s only a few pieces of info on it. Someone would say “why do you need to use a whole sheet of paper for just this?”

    • @Thorry84@feddit.nl
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      02 years ago

      Don’t mention A4 paper, it scares the Americans. If any of them could read, they would be very afraid right now.

          • EbbyA
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            12 years ago

            sips tea and extends pinky

            Am I doing metric right?

            • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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              Actually no, the Brits shit on us for it but by most approaches they’re actually even worse than we are

              The bruvs be usin’ STONE out here and acting like they get to crack wise

            • Actually a size. More commonly referred to as “letter” sized. It’s 8x11.5 inches, which is pretty close to A4, but it’ll confuse printers if you mix the 2 up.

              • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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                02 years ago

                but it’ll confuse printers if you mix the 2 up.

                So far all printers I’ve seen can switch between both. The real problem is your Writer/Word document, because after the slight reformatting it’s now all over the place.

        • UnityDevice
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          02 years ago

          It’s a size of paper with an aspect ratio of 1:√2, and the short edge that is 21cm long. The long edge will then be 21√2 = 29.7cm. The aspect ratio has the interesting property that it can be halved and doubled while remaining constant.

          This has been your ISO fact of the day.

            • ISO 7304-2:2008 defines a standard for cooking spaghetti. Subsection 3.9 “Completeness” closely resembles “al denté” but isn’t true al denté; as 3.9 states “no white core visible” when a noodle is inspected crosswise with a razor blade. Al denté phase is sensed via the teeth for texture differential of the inner and outer part of a spaghetti. No agreement has been reached by international consortium of Italian food preparers and dentists as to which tooth is to be used. Thus, the standard must be reviewed every 5 years by sensory analysis.

        • @fsxylo@sh.itjust.works
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          02 years ago

          Right?

          Like just because we export all our media to you (because it’s better) and make fun of our stereotypes in that media, doesn’t mean that most of us are like that. Believe it or not we actually have cool stuff that’s uniquely American.

          And the reason you see Kraft singles is because we don’t want to share our BBQ with you.