This is the first time that I was given a practical reason to adopt something from the metric system. Other times it would always fall back on human error and simplicity. But this is different. It is not a new unit, but a very practical aspect ratio. Until to today, I thought that it was impossible to divide a rectangle in half and get the same aspect ratio, but it was sitting under my nose. Having A0 be a square meter in area is just a round number to use as a starting point. Thank you for teaching me this, it is very usefull!
@@ajeettv but it is frowned upon to sing or play this verse and it's not part of the german national anthem. And at the time of the occupation of Germany it was forbidden.
Are you aware that the music you used in 1:28 is the national anthem of the third german empire? “Deutschland, Deutschland über alles” means something like “german over all” and was used by the NSDAP. The national anthem of the current Germany starts with “Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit”
@@RTYB I don't know about you, but I don't see the statement "Systematicly killing 6000000 people because of their religion ist wrong and we should not encourage anything like it." as globalist or guild, but as the only morally right thing.
@@ja_u It's not acually illegal. It is just frowned upon and not played on official events. The "Horst Wessel Lied", which was the SA's and later the NSDAP's hymne is the hymne that was forbidden. Also it is legal to play these types of music (e.g. in school) for education and in art (e.g. movies).
The search for the right paper format has been going on since the French revolution. The meter was introduced, but no one had thought about paper sizes. When mathematicians found a solution, it took a long time for the Germans to implement it.
Yeah, I agree, just change it to conform to the rest of the world! Why do we have to be different? I realize change is difficult. It’s also difficult to want to buy a computer desk with certain qualities, you search and search and finally find “the one”❤️ and read that the file drawer is A4 and not letter size. Can you tell me if I buy that one, will my papers fit in there or will they stick up at the top so that I can’t see my tabs?
Back then, there was no Germany as an state but the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation, which was dominated by Prussia and Austria. Neither of this "states" had a black-white-red flag, but this was later the flag of the German Empire which came into existing in 1871.
The A4 paper is by definition 210 × 297 mm. 1 inch by definition is 25.4 mm. Therefore the size in inches is exactly 210/25.4 × 297/25.4 inches. That is 8¹⁷⁄₆₄ × 11⁴⁴⁄₆₄ inches when rounded to closest ¹⁄₆₄ of an inch.
OMG the song you can hear as he draws the german man is not the german hymn 😱 it is a forbidden song in germany, it only sounds like the german hymn but the text is totally wrong 😵💫
It is not forbidden. At least not in Germany. And it is the same song as the German anthem. The German anthem is defined as the third verse of the "Lied der Deutschen". During the time of the NS regime it was the first verse, the first line of which can be heard in the video. The first two verses are not part of the anthem but are legal to sing. Doing so might, however, mark you as a nationalist.
I think the US Letter system and the ISO 216 both mirror different kinds of mindsets. And each is in a way representative of the US and the German mindset/culture. If you were in the wilderness with no equipment whatsoever, then what do you do to measure things (i.e. so you can build a house)? You use what you have, i.e. your thumb ("rule of thumb"), your finger unit (inch), your feet, your arm (cubit), etc. This nicely fits into the history of USA and how the first settlers started to live in the USA (at least thats how I imagine it). And in general, using a cubit, feet and inches was more or less the go to way to measure things for the first 9800 years of known mankind. The German DIN A series is practical, mechanical, thoughtful, logical, rational and most of all, it is artificial. No, the "magic" of the squareroot of 2 is not artificial. But the way Germans came up with this system, shows a certain way of mechanical thinking. By that I mean, look into nature, things dont align themselves in perfect symmertry, everything seems chaotic, but then there is the German that creates a perfect grid pattern and puts it on the area, and everything has to go according to that. This is a very mechanical and abstract way of thinking. In a way, it is unnatural. But it is at the same time what has set humans apart from animals in term of brain power. Funnily, we see a great example where these 2 kinds of mindsets are used exactly by the opposite people. Where Americans used "German" way of thinking and where the rest of the world uses "American/natural" way of thinking. And that is in how a city is set up. NY Manhattan, is a perfect grid pattern, this is very artifical, very abstract, very ... German. All other cities in the world are set up most of the time with a center point and then everything seems to flow out of it. Streets and buildings are set up in places that seem to fit perfectly into the landscape but that makes navigating in those cities very difficult, ...chaotic....natural.
Germans did not invent the practical DIN system. We Germans are copying systems which are practical. A French mathematician found the practical ratio system and it is now standard in Europe. Myself having Irish and French family roots fully understand that the old systems have their unique charm, especially my cutlery in Queens pattern from 1850 made by George Adams with the weight in troy ounce. But now a funny story. There was a competition in Berlin for a building of an international organization. The final four chosen architect firms appeared in the hall of the judging experts. The American team presented their huge plan in the size DIN A0 ( = 33 1/8. x. 46. 19/24 in) carried by two men. The French team had just a thick DIN A 4 folder and doubled their plan inside this folder four times to arrive at the size DIN A0. The Americans were speechless. They had made their plan in one piece which had cost for the transport in the plane several thousand dollars because special safety measures had been applied. The Americans won the competition and from this moment adopted the French DIN system.
But ANSI paper sizes do scale in the same manner following the 2AxB size, just with alternating aspect ratios as you show. So you can still fit two of one size page on one of the next size paper. I suppose the thing ANSI can't do is scale a single page between sheet sizes because the aspect ratio flips, but you can skip a size and it will still scale correctly, not that that's terribly helpful. But the "printing two pages on one bigger sheet" is not an advantage that ISO has over ANSI. ANSI A = 8.5x11" (Letter) ANSI B = 11x17" (Ledger/Tabloid) ANSI C = 17x22" ANSI D = 22x34" ANSI E = 34x44" You can see that each size holds to the 2AxB formula just like ISO sizes, so you can make books/pamphlets, you just can't directly scale from one to the next.
"Don't ask questions, just deal with it." Sure, it sounds bad, but that attitude successfully convinced a whole generation of American children that we single-handedly won WWII, and "you're welcome" for that, but also, and I am so sorry to have to tell you that no matter how bad the rest of the world wants to be American, you're only allowed if you're rich because that's what's best for the middle class. 😂
The metric system is a massive letdown. Y'all should have changed the way you count rather than change the way you everything else. But about paper sizes, the ISO thing just seems more elegant
Haha. That would piss Democrats off so bad if Trump issued executive orders for all government agencies to start using Iso-216 & start converting to metric. 😂
That makes entirely too much sense for us Americans.
1:27 wait thats illegal
Shh
its not
Yes it is illegal.
This is the first time that I was given a practical reason to adopt something from the metric system. Other times it would always fall back on human error and simplicity.
But this is different. It is not a new unit, but a very practical aspect ratio. Until to today, I thought that it was impossible to divide a rectangle in half and get the same aspect ratio, but it was sitting under my nose. Having A0 be a square meter in area is just a round number to use as a starting point.
Thank you for teaching me this, it is very usefull!
Just wait for it, there is also B size, which is perfect envelope size.
That was the forbiden part of the German anthem! WTF
Florian Meidinger lol thats what I thought...
Deutschland Deutschland über alles
(German) FBI OPEN UP
@@ja_u SEK! ÖFFNE DIE TÜR!!!
not forbidden
Oh fuck off with your white guilt, you lefty.
@@ajeettv but it is frowned upon to sing or play this verse and it's not part of the german national anthem. And at the time of the occupation of Germany it was forbidden.
Are you aware that the music you used in 1:28 is the national anthem of the third german empire? “Deutschland, Deutschland über alles” means something like “german over all” and was used by the NSDAP. The national anthem of the current Germany starts with “Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit”
Anonym und Unbekannt And its actually illegal
Good youre not German lol
Fuck off with your white guilt somewhere else, you globalist shill.
@@RTYB I don't know about you, but I don't see the statement "Systematicly killing 6000000 people because of their religion ist wrong and we should not encourage anything like it." as globalist or guild, but as the only morally right thing.
@@ja_u It's not acually illegal. It is just frowned upon and not played on official events. The "Horst Wessel Lied", which was the SA's and later the NSDAP's hymne is the hymne that was forbidden. Also it is legal to play these types of music (e.g. in school) for education and in art (e.g. movies).
Canada also uses the 8.5x11" format.
really nice bit of maths, shows the difference between Americans and europeans!! ;)
The fact that we can't switch to anything new 😭😭😭😭😭
I love a fellow member prefers the A4 > Letter
The German dude told the advantages of the Squarre root of 2. But it was the French who developed and used the paper system first
Why does this channel have so few subscribers? It's great!
Wow you are really good. I hope to see your channel grow further!
The search for the right paper format has been going on since the French revolution. The meter was introduced, but no one had thought about paper sizes.
When mathematicians found a solution, it took a long time for the Germans to implement it.
1:27 That may have been the version of the anthem back then, but that verse is not sung anymore.
Wrong part of the anthem, lol .
I just want to make a paper plane with a4
But the best bit is you can cut A4 in half and make two identical miniature planes
Ended on a high note.
😂😂😂 This was certainly more than I wanted to know but interesting all the same!
Funniest video I have ever seen hahaha . Mr. President make America great again by adopting A4 😁😁
Yeah, I agree, just change it to conform to the rest of the world! Why do we have to be different? I realize change is difficult. It’s also difficult to want to buy a computer desk with certain qualities, you search and search and finally find “the one”❤️ and read that the file drawer is A4 and not letter size. Can you tell me if I buy that one, will my papers fit in there or will they stick up at the top so that I can’t see my tabs?
The 1st verse of the german anthem is forbidden xD
But that was a good laugh ahahahh
1 year late, but its not forbidden
WAIT - There actualy existed no national athem in 1786 at all. And the German Flag back then was black, white and red.
Back then, there was no Germany as an state but the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation, which was dominated by Prussia and Austria. Neither of this "states" had a black-white-red flag, but this was later the flag of the German Empire which came into existing in 1871.
What's a4 paper dimensions in inches?
Idk but same ratio
And an inch is 2.51
The A4 paper is by definition 210 × 297 mm. 1 inch by definition is 25.4 mm. Therefore the size in inches is exactly 210/25.4 × 297/25.4 inches. That is 8¹⁷⁄₆₄ × 11⁴⁴⁄₆₄ inches when rounded to closest ¹⁄₆₄ of an inch.
Yea Um 🤔
OMG the song you can hear as he draws the german man is not the german hymn 😱 it is a forbidden song in germany, it only sounds like the german hymn but the text is totally wrong 😵💫
It is not forbidden. At least not in Germany. And it is the same song as the German anthem. The German anthem is defined as the third verse of the "Lied der Deutschen". During the time of the NS regime it was the first verse, the first line of which can be heard in the video. The first two verses are not part of the anthem but are legal to sing. Doing so might, however, mark you as a nationalist.
I like US letter. More width and less tall. Looks great.
hy where can i buy it online?
I think the US Letter system and the ISO 216 both mirror different kinds of mindsets. And each is in a way representative of the US and the German mindset/culture.
If you were in the wilderness with no equipment whatsoever, then what do you do to measure things (i.e. so you can build a house)? You use what you have, i.e. your thumb ("rule of thumb"), your finger unit (inch), your feet, your arm (cubit), etc. This nicely fits into the history of USA and how the first settlers started to live in the USA (at least thats how I imagine it). And in general, using a cubit, feet and inches was more or less the go to way to measure things for the first 9800 years of known mankind.
The German DIN A series is practical, mechanical, thoughtful, logical, rational and most of all, it is artificial. No, the "magic" of the squareroot of 2 is not artificial. But the way Germans came up with this system, shows a certain way of mechanical thinking. By that I mean, look into nature, things dont align themselves in perfect symmertry, everything seems chaotic, but then there is the German that creates a perfect grid pattern and puts it on the area, and everything has to go according to that. This is a very mechanical and abstract way of thinking. In a way, it is unnatural. But it is at the same time what has set humans apart from animals in term of brain power.
Funnily, we see a great example where these 2 kinds of mindsets are used exactly by the opposite people. Where Americans used "German" way of thinking and where the rest of the world uses "American/natural" way of thinking. And that is in how a city is set up. NY Manhattan, is a perfect grid pattern, this is very artifical, very abstract, very ... German.
All other cities in the world are set up most of the time with a center point and then everything seems to flow out of it. Streets and buildings are set up in places that seem to fit perfectly into the landscape but that makes navigating in those cities very difficult, ...chaotic....natural.
Germans did not invent the practical DIN system. We Germans are copying systems which are practical. A French mathematician found the practical ratio system and it is now standard in Europe. Myself having Irish and French family roots fully understand that the old systems have their unique charm, especially my cutlery in Queens pattern from 1850 made by George Adams with the weight in troy ounce.
But now a funny story. There was a competition in Berlin for a building of an international organization. The final four chosen architect firms appeared in the hall of the judging experts. The American team presented their huge plan in the size DIN A0 ( = 33 1/8. x. 46. 19/24 in) carried by two men. The French team had just a thick DIN A 4 folder and doubled their plan inside this folder four times to arrive at the size DIN A0. The Americans were speechless. They had made their plan in one piece which had cost for the transport in the plane several thousand dollars because special safety measures had been applied. The Americans won the competition and from this moment adopted the French DIN system.
But ANSI paper sizes do scale in the same manner following the 2AxB size, just with alternating aspect ratios as you show. So you can still fit two of one size page on one of the next size paper. I suppose the thing ANSI can't do is scale a single page between sheet sizes because the aspect ratio flips, but you can skip a size and it will still scale correctly, not that that's terribly helpful. But the "printing two pages on one bigger sheet" is not an advantage that ISO has over ANSI.
ANSI A = 8.5x11" (Letter)
ANSI B = 11x17" (Ledger/Tabloid)
ANSI C = 17x22"
ANSI D = 22x34"
ANSI E = 34x44"
You can see that each size holds to the 2AxB formula just like ISO sizes, so you can make books/pamphlets, you just can't directly scale from one to the next.
You just can't directly scale from one to the next.
That's kind of the problem, isn't it?
Thumbs up for the Trump propaganga. Nice vid Bro.
Geschribene Wort ist Gesetz
big pepe
"Don't ask questions, just deal with it." Sure, it sounds bad, but that attitude successfully convinced a whole generation of American children that we single-handedly won WWII, and "you're welcome" for that, but also, and I am so sorry to have to tell you that no matter how bad the rest of the world wants to be American, you're only allowed if you're rich because that's what's best for the middle class.
😂
The metric system is a massive letdown. Y'all should have changed the way you count rather than change the way you everything else.
But about paper sizes, the ISO thing just seems more elegant
not sure if troll or absolute moron
Today I learned that my country (USA) is, yet again, more ridiculous than I had realized.
I am American and I felt like I was watching a Chinese video.. what the fuck is going on
get off your U.S soapbox, its unnecessary and unprofessional.
Haha. That would piss Democrats off so bad if Trump issued executive orders for all government agencies to start using Iso-216 & start converting to metric. 😂
Lawrence L7337 No Trump would be the one against it lmao
Support US companies we remain the only ones using old system.. yeee hawww
. Seems. A real ano.technks jl310. Merate