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Originally Posted by petermillard
Actually, I think it's just designed more with American users in mind - typically U.S. paper formats are 'squarer' than those use in the UK and Europe, which has pretty much standardised on 2:3 format 'A' paper sizes.
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Pedantry Moment: 'A' paper sizes are actually in 1:sqrt 2, or approx. 1:1.414.
2:3 would be 1:1.5
Neither 'A' nor (US) Letter paper sizes matches the 4:3 ratio, though both are fairly close in number on either side. Perceptions are another matter entirely.
Cheers,
Marc