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Okay, so "A" size paper (like they use over there in Europe) is half the size as the numbers go up.

A0 is about a square meter, A1 is about half a square meter, A2 is half that, etc.

The surface area of the Earth is about 510.1 million square kilometers (or 510.1 trillion square meters).

But what if the paper sizing continued into negative numbers?

What size paper would it take to cover the Earth?

a sheet of A-1 paper would be 2 square meters, A-2 would be 4 square meters, and so on.

… so a sheet of A-60 paper would cover the Earth.

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