And I was trying to get across to him that the units used really didn't matter at all, but he didn't seem to get that point.
If you read the parent (by somebody else, not Turing_Machine), it said that the ISO/DIN page sizes are part of the metric system. I corrected him saying that they were only based on it (in that the sizes were defined in terms of metric units) and not part of it, but that what really mattered was the ratio between the long and short edges of the sheets being √2.
Then Turing_Machine came in with this total non sequitur:
> How are factors of 2 and sqrt(2) "based on metric"?
If you read the parent (by somebody else, not Turing_Machine), it said that the ISO/DIN page sizes are part of the metric system. I corrected him saying that they were only based on it (in that the sizes were defined in terms of metric units) and not part of it, but that what really mattered was the ratio between the long and short edges of the sheets being √2.
Then Turing_Machine came in with this total non sequitur:
> How are factors of 2 and sqrt(2) "based on metric"?
And then things went completely off the rails.
Edit: s/same/came/