Re: AKICIF: The Shape of Asterix

In article <vc4cr4$82r$1@panix2.panix.com>, kludge@panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:

We have a similar arrangement in the US where 11x17 sheets turn into
two
8.5x11 sheets which turn into two 5.5x8.5 sheets and so forth,

But with the metric paper sizes, they all - A0, A1, etc. -have the same
ratio of height/width: square root of 2.  The same is true of the B and C
paper sizes.