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Subject: [OM] Re: Missing digital ideas
From: keith_w <keith_w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:30:53 -0700
Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Well, you always have to have the square root of two involved.  

Why?

> For 
> photographic use it puts them all one stop apart.  Can't think of any 
> other reason why sizing papers with that ratio would make any sense. :-)
> 
> Chuck Norcutt
> 
> Jez Cunningham wrote:
> 
>> In the metric world, the common paper sizes are A6, A5, A4, A3 etc -
>> all these sizes have a constant ratio of 1 : 1.414 (pretty close to
>> 2:3)

keith whaley

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