The way we sell screens by diagonal does seem like marketing got away with one.
Further complicating this is that the screen is curved.
So... they'd have to take a tailors tape, from one diagonal to another, also pressing it into the screen, being careful not to damage it.
Either that or take a width heght and depth measurent and do a bit of trig.
Yeah, measuring the arc of the curved width using the width and sagitta is a little tricky, too, but totally doable with trig.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagitta_%28geometry%29?wprov=sfla1
The wiki main image suggests to me, a mere math casual, that you might even need one more piece of information than just s and l?
It's reasonable. What they got away with was labeling wide screens as a good thing.
Well, it's also in inches, so nobody has a mental image of what the number means anyways.
I love that Amazon's approval process for reviews doesn't filter out ANY of this stupidity.
I read a livid one-star review once from a customer who angrily returned a wireless router because the box had wires in it.
What if words? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.
Thanks.
Corrected if into of in the title.
no, no, they have a point
why is a resolution primarily measured in vertical pixels, but a screen size is measured in diagonal? shouldn't it be vertical, so that it's easily comparable across resolutions and sizes?
Are resolutions predominantly measured in vertical pixels? I thought it was horizontal? Like, 1080p is 1080 wide? I don't know anything about resolutions though so I'm likely wrong!
1080p is 1920x1080 (WxH)
1440p is 2560x1440
Then you get to 4K and whoops, we broke the naming convention
Oh my god. Duh ๐ I literally did the 1920x1080 thing but somehow still thought 1080 was the width ๐ Thank you!
how is this a history meme
Pythagorus was a guy in the past
No, he was a sentient triangle.
oh mb I thought he was a scientist
Mathematicians are scientists that don't wear lab coats?
Oof yea I did the thing where I upvotes without checking the community. Shame on me.
If you give Pythagoras the width and the aspect ratio, heโll be just fine.
Why is my Samsung 49-in curved monitor only 14 in high? It should be 49x49 duh.
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