Kytael 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: Kytael 02 December 2011 08:56:08PM 4 points [-]

I could also meaninglessly answer that the length is more important, as it will always be equal or bigger.

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