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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.
Good thing Americans don’t use metric, that sure would be an awkward size.
Well we do use a lot of unit metrics here, we just don’t use metric units. Except sometimes.
I personally use both together all the time. Now if you’ll excuse me, I seem to have misplaced my martian satellite.
Americans don’t know what 10 mm is, but they are well aware about 9 mm.
Wrong, we are all looking for that 10mm wrench that went missing just like you. And real 'Muricans know .45ACP is far superior to 9mm.