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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 208669, member: 4373&quot;]Hah, thought the day would come. This is my theory so feel free to attack what&#039;s going to come. </p><p><br /></p><p>Firstly, if you think it&#039;s from China, think of the early days of China. There weren&#039;t really any such thing as &quot;paper money&quot; but instead military warfare and plenty of bamboos. If you remember any miltary campaigns, why are the flags rectangular instead of a square? </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s simply got to do with human eye misconception. Remember in your science class,there are two glasses, one is thinner and the other is fatter. Yet when the same amount of water is poured into both of them, the thinner one seems to have more water. This applies to the reason why banknotes are &quot;thinner&quot; on the side. </p><p><br /></p><p>However early day banknotes aren&#039;t what we see and instead, it&#039;s bamboo money if I&#039;m not mistaken. Text in the early days were written from top to bottom, right to left instead of the present day left to right, top to bottom. Therefore, the early notes were written on the long side of the note, not on the short side as present days. There were also times when such notes were used as military campaigns if I am not mistaken, possibly to replicate their flags or some sort. </p><p><br /></p><p>Eventually over a long period of time, people found out that it must be easier to hand over a note on the longer side instead of the shorter side. However it is ugly to hand over a note on the long side and the person who receives it has to turn it around to confirm the denomination. You should try that one day, that is to try to give someone money like how a vending machine accepts money - it&#039;s relatively difficult compared to what you might be used to. </p><p><br /></p><p>For those who are bored to death, here is an offtopic related question since it reminded me of the misconception of volume and sizes. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are two different cans, both of 250ml. Using the above example of &quot;thinner&quot; and &quot;fatter&quot; can, which one actually costs more to produce?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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