Benquo comments on Rationality Quotes December 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CronoDAS 01 December 2011 04:49:01AM *  20 points [-]

Grognor: chelz: is the area of a rectangle more the length, or the width?

The width. Changing the width makes a bigger change in the area than changing the length does. (By convention, the width is defined as the smaller of the two dimensions of the rectangle.)

Comment author: Benquo 02 December 2011 02:48:14PM 5 points [-]

Only if you're augmenting/cutting by a fixed length.

If you're using a proportion (e.g. cut either the length or the width in half) then they're equivalent.