On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 10:40:15 -0000, whisky-dave wrote:

On Thursday, 23 February 2017 01:15:53 UTC, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 10:34:42 -0000, whisky-dave wrote:

So why count them at all , why not just guess.

Because I'd be out by a huge margin.

I can understand that what with you head butting things because you don't know how high they are.

So you can pick up a lump of paper and say "there are about 150 sheets here"?

I can do that without a micrometer.
Why not gove them a new ream and say there;s about 200 sheets there, or just take about 75% from the pack and say there;s about 150 sheets.
Would we remain in the EU if you didn;lt guess right, what disaster would happen if you gave someone 140 sheets rather than 150 ?

A micrometer is easier.

Your 50mm = 500 sheets = 1 ream exactly, so that's fine.

except it measures 54cm and there's a few pages short

54cm?!

sorry meant 54mm
try measuring a ream of paper.

My reams are 50mm. Depends on the gsm and quality I guess.

So is 8% accuracy OK ?

Where are you getting 8% from?

4mm is about 8% of 50mm

Not sure how accuratly you need to count out 200 pages
is +/- 16 pages OK

Yes.

So how accurate do you need to be in selection 150 sheets ..

140-160 would be fine.

It's warmer today and the same ream of paper measure 54cm.

Do you counting measurement allow for gaps between pages ?

I only needed to know roughly.

That's what I would have thought I doubt you're asked to supply 150 sheets to the ISS where handing them 160 sheets might have an effect on the overall payload.

They use paper up there?!

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