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It blows our hivemind that the United States doesn’t use the ISO 216 paper size standard (A4, A5 and the gang).

Like, we consider ourselves worldly people and are aware of America’s little idiosyncrasies like mass incarceration, the widespread availability of assault weapons and not being able to transfer money via your banking app, but come on - look how absolutely great it is to be European:

The American mind cannot comprehend this diagram

[Diagram of paper sizes as listed below]

ISO 216 A series papers formats

AO

A1

A3

A5

A7

A6

Et.

A4

Instead, Americans prostrate themselves to bizarrely-named paper types of seemingly random size: Letter, Legal, Tabloid (Ledger) and all other types of sordid nonsense. We’re not even going to include a picture because this is a family-friendly finance blog.

Source: Financial Times

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12 points

How many have yours got? More or fewer?

I have seen legal/letter sized clipboard with two rings, for the short end of the paper.

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17 points

Either two or four. The two holes are kinda in the middle then if it’s four holes it’s those same two plus two more closer to the edge

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10 points

And for 4, the spacing between them is the same as for the 2, leaving you 3 equal spaces.

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8 points

And then there is Sweden

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11 points

YouTube content opportunity ❕

Comparison of US, EU, & Swedish hole punched paper. Which flips smoothest? Which is most tear resistant? Which tears most gracefully?

When have you ever seen a content gap on YouTube…

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5 points

6-9 holes? Is that where Swedes keep their meatballs

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3 points

TIL

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1 point

Also, if you fold a sheet in half, both sets of two match, so if you cut 4 hole punched A4’s in half, they’ll fit in two hole binders.

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5 points

2, 4 or 23.

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