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[–] [email protected] 122 points 8 months ago (35 children)

Why make it a card then? If it's meant to be stored as a document then it should be the size of an envelope, or a standard A4 sheet.

I keep mine attached to the envelope sized paper it came on. But it shouldn't be a card shape, that encourages people to carry it. My grandpa always carried his.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 8 months ago (33 children)

Don't mention A4 paper, it scares the Americans. If any of them could read, they would be very afraid right now.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (13 children)

Hey now, I can read...but, what's this A4 paper you speak of?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's a size of paper with an aspect ratio of 1:√2, and the short edge that is 21cm long. The long edge will then be 21√2 = 29.7cm. The aspect ratio has the interesting property that it can be halved and doubled while remaining constant.

This has been your ISO fact of the day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

ISO 7304-2:2008 defines a standard for cooking spaghetti. Subsection 3.9 "Completeness" closely resembles "al denté" but isn't true al denté; as 3.9 states "no white core visible" when a noodle is inspected crosswise with a razor blade. Al denté phase is sensed via the teeth for texture differential of the inner and outer part of a spaghetti. No agreement has been reached by international consortium of Italian food preparers and dentists as to which tooth is to be used. Thus, the standard must be reviewed every 5 years by sensory analysis.

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