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In Indonesia, where it is the legally-mandated paper size for use in the printing of national legislation, it is sometimes called Folio or HVS (from Dutch: houtvrij schrijfpapier, "wood-free writing paper"). In Philippines, it is commonly called long bond as opposed to short bond which refers to the US Letter paper size.
Bond paper is a high-quality durable writing paper similar to bank paper but having a weight greater than 50 g/m 2. The most common weights are 60 g/m 2 (16 lb), 75 g/m 2 (20 lb) and 90 g/m 2 (24 lb). The name comes from its having originally been made for documents such as government bonds.
All ISO 216, ISO 217 and ISO 269 paper sizes (except some envelopes) have the same aspect ratio, √ 2:1, within rounding to millimetres. This ratio has the unique property that when cut or folded in half widthways, the halves also have the same aspect ratio. Each ISO paper size is one half of the area of the next larger size in the same series ...
Although metric, based on the A4 paper size, and named to suggest that it is part of the official ISO 216 paper sizes, it is only a de facto standard. It is often referred to as (metric) "foolscap" or "folio" because of its similarity to the traditional foolscap folio size of 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in × 13 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (216 mm × 343 mm).
A ream of paper is a quantity of sheets of the same size and quality. International standards organizations define the ream as 500 identical sheets. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ Note 2 ] This ream of 500 sheets (20 quires of 25 sheets) is also known as a 'long' ream, and is gradually replacing the old value of 480 sheets, now known as a 'short' ream.
The IEA forecasts a major oil supply glut in 2025, and even if OPEC+ continues to limit production, it won't be enough to address the overhang.
The U.S. Treasury stopped issuing most paper savings bonds in 2012 (with the exception of taxpayers who use some of their tax refund to purchase paper bonds), but they never expire and there’s ...
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