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The article's not claiming that the ratio of any two integers is √2, he's claiming that when the ratio of the lengths of the sides (the aspect ratio) is √2 that
by delinka 12y ago
The article's not claiming that the ratio of any two integers is √2, he's claiming that when the ratio of the lengths of the sides (the aspect ratio) is √2 that it's easy to keep that ratio with smaller pages by cutting the longer dimension in half.
As for your equation above, A/√A != A x A / A, but I'm not seeing where in the article you got this either.
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- baddox 12y ago> The size is 210 mm × 297 mm and has a ratio of √2 (math!). That looks like a claim that the ratio of two integers is sqrt(2), but it's fairly obvious that he really means that it's very close.
- delinka 12y agoI don't think anyone would attempt to assert that any measurement (or ratio of measurements) made with our current technology could ever be precisely √2 or even π (that's pi)