Comments on: ever wondered why you need to set the photocopier to 70%? http://saulcozens.co.uk/2009/01/13/ever-wondered-why-you-need-to-set-the-photocopier-to-70/ Musings and dabblings in anything vaguely related to the web Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: jim http://saulcozens.co.uk/2009/01/13/ever-wondered-why-you-need-to-set-the-photocopier-to-70/comment-page-1/#comment-38 jim Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:47:08 +0000 http://saulcozens.co.uk/?p=76#comment-38 I always used to get into arguments with students with this one when I was a Photocopy tech at Norton College. They'd come in "I want this half size" Me: do you mean 70% Them: No 50% Me, that'd be a quarter sized then? Them: No half... etc... it's about halving the area of the paper, not one dimension. equally 2* size is 141% not 200% never met anyone else who thought this interesting... ...I love arguing with Students BTW... I always used to get into arguments with students with this one when I was a Photocopy tech at Norton College.

They’d come in “I want this half size”

Me: do you mean 70%
Them: No 50%
Me, that’d be a quarter sized then?
Them: No half…

etc…

it’s about halving the area of the paper, not one dimension.

equally 2* size is 141% not 200%

never met anyone else who thought this interesting…

…I love arguing with Students BTW…

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