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.
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.
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.
I didn't know there are part of the world which doesn't put A4 in their printers
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
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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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