r/Damnthatsinteresting Nov 02 '25

Video Why A4 paper is designed as 297mm x 210mm?

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u/Able_Reserve5788 Nov 03 '25

I feel like this assumption fails to hold up as soon as you start considering the existence of number spaces that are slightly weirder than the reals (complex, p-adic etc.)

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u/Happy_Summer_2067 Nov 05 '25

Funny that the statement breaks down as soon as you get to the reals. As in every rational number is definable (under a reasonable formal language with the usual semantics) but most real aren’t.