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The same thing happens to you every time: You're nearing the bottom of your sheet of note paper and you don't want to go to a second sheet (and deal with the staples and paperclips and such) so you start to write smaller and smaller -- you just have one more sentence anyway; this only deserves to be
a one-page document, you can squeeze it in -- oh, just one more thing, ..., oh, let me just write this too.
You end up with a mishmash of semicomprehensible jottings at the bottom of the page - not pleasant for the teacher who has to grade it, the typist who has to transcribe it, or for you, as you stress while trying to fit the words into that decreasing area.
But with Extendible Notepaper, you will never be caught off guard. These letter-sized sheets contain a spare 3-inch length that is folded back upon itself; simply unfold the flap and your page becomes Legal sized.
The paper is manufactured to be 1/2 the thickness at the bottom 3 inches so that the folded-back part does not increase the thickness of the notepad.
Sounds like my Fermat Margin
Fermat_20Margin
Algorithmic! [theleopard, Mar 19 2007]
Endless notepaper
Endless_20notepad
[DrCurry, Mar 19 2007]
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If you just adopt a policy of making
each line of writing half as big as the
line before, then |
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a) You will, in fact, be able to
accommodate an infinite amount of text
on the page if you are prepared to go
small enough and |
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b) A large fraction of infinity of space
must, therefore, remain for any finite
amount of writing. Hence, your final
words need not be infinitely cramped. |
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[Maxwell] That won't work, as writing is quantised - i.e. the height of a letter will always be greater than the dimensions of a molecule of ink. |
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[hippo] Your argument holds only in the
trivial case of the real world. |
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Since my notes usually start out on Post-Its, I usually just keeping adding more Post-its on the bottom. |
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Btw, I'm reasonably certain someone already suggested something like this, in addition to leopard - yep, see link. |
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Who said anything about only writing in ink? You could also carry around a radiation source that punches holes in your notepad by bombarding it with various radioactive particles. Then continue upgrading equipment as necessary. |
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There's no real proof that space ever stops getting smaller. We have just only discovered things so far down. |
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My handwriting is so bad that even a portable scanning electron microscope wouldn't improve the legibility. |
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Why not turn it over?. I understand there is usually additional space on the back. |
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And if you hands are agile enough, write on the edges of the paper too. |
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