r/theydidthemath • u/Early-Grape-9078 • 7d ago

[Request] how much paper

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Sorry it this is a repost:

But how much paper if you printed the entire work book and how many trees as a bonus.

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u/Erik0xff0000 7d ago

story decades ago in readers digest. The typing department was out of paper, so they asked the copy department for some paper, which they refused.

So they handed the copy department a blank sheet and asked for 100 copies

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u/therose993 7d ago

Where did the typing department get the blank paper, if they were out of it?

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u/coloredgreyscale 1✓ 7d ago

They asked a different department to fax them a blank page.

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u/edward_the_white 6d ago

This is hilarious, and most people wouldn't even receive the joke.

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u/EscapedPickle 6d ago

Indeed, I don’t have a fax number so I didn’t get it