Improving your vocabulary for LF

[Michael Clark]

Well of course 2 dimensions Length and width.Take's two dimensions to make an area.except a circle maybe.

[Michael Clark]

You are right Vaughn, my wife just explained it to me, math is not my subject.
Heroigue, here is one we use to use in high school,"souping the film" or" dunking the film in the soup."

[Lffbug]

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Doubling the dimensions of 4x5, which are 4 and 5, would be 8 and 10. Is 'area' a dimension, or the product of two dimensions?

You've 2x'ed the width, 2x'ed the height, and 4x'ed the area. It's hard to say anyone is either right or wrong if they haven't specified what dimensions they're referring.

[Heroique]

Heroique, here is one we use to use in high school, "souping the film" or "dunking the film in the soup."

Think I'll uncork a Merlot to go with that.

Make that Champagne, it's New Year's Eve!

[Michael Clark]

4 hours to go,yeeehaa.

[Vaughn]

I did not offer it as a right or wrong sort of thing -- just being mathematically obnoxious!