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Sometimes I don't understand why my mind works this way.

posted by [personal profile] caramida at 10:20am on 10/07/2006 under ,
In the US, the standard business-size envelope is big enough to fit several sheets of 8.5" x 11" paper, with room to spare. It's called a Number 10 envelope. There also exists a Number 9 envelope, whose sole purpose it seems, is to be small enough to fit inside a Number 10 envelope, and yet still be big enough to hold an 8.5" x 11" piece of paper (or a check!). And the Number 11? It is intended to be big enough that you can fit your Number 10s inside.

I don't know why this amuses me, but it does.
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posted by [identity profile] knaveofhearts.livejournal.com at 05:58pm on 10/07/2006
If you like that, then this will blow your mind.

http://www.prepressure.com/library/papersizes.htm
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posted by [identity profile] sylphslider.livejournal.com at 06:23pm on 10/07/2006
BWAH!

"As far as I know, a lot of businesses in the US still rely on the paper sizes below that come with nice names but no apparent logic behind them. In England a similar system was used but they have already seen the light and switched to the A-sizes."
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posted by [identity profile] steluch.livejournal.com at 12:14am on 11/07/2006
wow, it would have been really useful for me to have looked that up on the interweb way back once upon a time when i sat down with the autocad plot settings/menu and figured out for myself what all those paper sizes where/are...i rounded though...
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posted by [identity profile] eriktdahl.livejournal.com at 06:23pm on 10/07/2006
This envelope goes up to 11!
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