Slime <pov### [at] slimelandcom> wrote:
>  >    Monitor screen sizes do not seem to follow this trend, however, and
>  > seem to grow a lot more linearly.

> Assuming the supported resolution is changing proportionately, this is 
> actually quadratic growth in terms of number of pixels.

  The standard measurement for screen size is the length of the diagonal.

> This is probably limited by graphics hardware in some way (although I'm 
> not sure how fast that grows in "power"). It's also limited by the fact 
> that popular OSs such as Windows still use pixels as a unit of 
> measurement, so there's limited benefit to higher resolutions as it 
> shrinks the size of important objects on screen.

  Resolution has little to do with screen size.

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