Plain Lab · notebook
Engineering Computation Pad
A faint five-millimetre field, a title block at the head of the page, and a heavier margin down one side, for working shown rather than hidden.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 120
- Leaves
- 60
- Sheets
- 30
- Signatures
- 6 × 20pp
- Spine
- 6.86 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- computation
- Ruling pitch
- 5.00 mm · 14.17 pt
- Rows per page
- 34
The rule sits at 5.00 mm, thirty-four rows down the page, faint enough to disappear once a calculation is written over it. A title block runs across the top of every page. The margin on one side is drawn heavier than the rest, wide enough for a running note beside the working rather than squeezed into it.
Engineering computation paper earns its name from that heavier margin, not from anything printed on the field itself. It does not check an equation or flag a unit that doesn't cancel. It gives the working room to be shown in full, which is usually the part a torn-off scrap of paper skips.
The page holds the arithmetic. It does not do it.
What is inside
- Computation pages
- 109pp
- A 5.00 mm field with a title block and a heavier margin, for working shown in full.
- Reference
- 11pp
- Conversion tables computed from definitions and emergency numbers checked against two sources.
The film
Page by page
A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
- Shorthand NotebookAlso in Plain Lab
- Numbered and Indexed Dotted NotebookAlso in Plain Lab
- Knitting and Crochet Chart NotebookAlso in Plain Lab
- Wide-Stave Music NotebookAlso in Plain Lab
Questions
What is engineering computation paper?
A faint field ruled at 5.00 mm with a title block across the top and a heavier margin down one side, meant for working shown in full rather than crammed to the edge.
How fine is the field?
5.00 mm, thirty-four rows to the page.
What goes in the title block?
Whatever heads the calculation: a job number, a date, a revision, your name. The block is ruled; what you write in it is yours to decide.
Is it dated?
No.
How big is it?
A5, 120 pages, 6.86 mm across the spine.
Every quantity is intellectually conceivable as infinitely divisible.
