From: "mike" >i am more confused than EVER after reading: > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html > > mike >
Proof that all simple systems are doomed to complexity. But you do have to make things like envelopes, and these require different paper sizes to make a bit of room and edges to gum things up. And so on. And it looks as though the piece, despite bearing the UK suffix, is written by an American; 'meter', Sir, meter? The word is Metre. And the first diagram could have been a lot clearer [i.e. the two A4 sheets could each have had 2 and root 2, rather than looking like a break in the rule!]. It mentions the A B and C ranges, though I thought the French description added a D range. Anyhow, I struggle to see a mathematical relationship between the A, B and C size, as though they were established by trial and error... Joseph Harris [Oh, and the Japanese have already broken rank ;-)]
