C size

C size

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(engineering)

One of a series of sizes to which trimmed paper and board are manufactured; for size CN, with N equal to any integer, the length of the longer side is 2^{3/8-N /2}meters, while the length of the shorter side is 2^{1/8-N /2}meters, with both lengths rounded off to the nearest millimeter.

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