Well yes, the rest of the world does have better paper. 21×29.7, the only ratio to conserve itself when halving the sheet
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Wait, is that true? Is there something special about that ratio in particular that lets it conserve ratio when dividing?
And IIRC, A0 is 1m²
There also is B0, which is exactly 1 by the root of 2 meters.
Beautiful.
Yes it's true. It's the square root of 2, which is why it works.
Legend has it that Leonardo da Vinci came up with it
Here's a fun CGP Grey video on the matter: https://youtu.be/pUF5esTscZI?si=9czdx4u8jWruZoui
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Here you go, proof at ~2 min in.
Edit: for those who don't want to use YouTube anymore. If a is the long side and b is the short side of a rectangle. Halving the rectangle will make the long side b and the short side 1/2 a. If the ratio is preserved when halving, we get:
a/b=b/(1/2 a)
a^2=2b^2
a^2/b^2=2
a/b=sqrt(2)
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Yes, this particular ratio allows the fact that you can fold a A3 paper in two and get two A4 sheet
Besides the Grey video heres an oldie but goodie Numberphile video about it
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It's called the Golden Ratio and has a lot of neat properties! Da Vinci and other nerds love(d) using it in art.
I didn't know there are part of the world which doesn't put A4 in their printers
Relation 1 to SQR 2, from A0 of 1m2 to A5 letter format (A4, A5 most used in the EU), every time the half of the next bigger format. Easy to remember.
For anyone else wondering, this is a X11 vs Wayland meme - i.e. desktop window managers. Yeah.
Neither of them are window managers, they are windowing systems. A window manager is the part that actually lets you move around windows and draws the borders and stuff, like kwin, mutter, xfwm, i3, etc
As I typed my comment, I realised someone would correct me with hyperspecific linux terminology. But I support your correction good sir.
Y'all arguing about window managers and I'm just trying to connect my shit-ass bt headset to my PC.
does Wayland even have a built in DWM? Because both are session manager.
No, Wayland is just a protocol, and the things that implement it are compositors, not WMs
Also, there's no such thing as a DWM, except for the WM called dwm
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Yes, we do have metric paper. A4 vs. US letter.
Legacy dependancies
depen dancies
dancies - little dances :]
Mir for me
Stupid Nvidia Ink Cartridges...
Well the tearing fixes would definitely help.
Option "TearFree" "true" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/your.conf but some compositors do that already.
for fuck sake shut up LMAO
Shouldn't it be 8.5XFree86 in the land of freedom™?
HDR for Wayland when?
Early Febuary 2024 if all goes well.
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