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by jrockway 4628 days ago
Diagonal measurements are meaningless. I can make an infinity-inch screen that takes up no space. All "6 inch" means is "no dimension is larger than 6 inches".
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> I can make an infinity-inch screen that takes up no space.

I don't understand what you meant by that. It's going to take infinite space...

1000" long by 0.00001" wide. Length 1000" (ish). Area 0.01 sq in.
Whatever is `1000" long`, hardly "takes up no space". We can go on about theoretical size, etc. In practice 1000" is a lot and not possible to comfortably store in any way by an average person.