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Comment by bitwize

2 months ago

Pixels are not measurement units. They're samples of an image taken a certain distance apart. It's like eggs in a carton: it's perfectly legitimate to say that a carton is 6 eggs long and 3 eggs wide, and holds a total of 18 eggs, because eggs are counted, they're not a length measure except in the crudest sense.

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