alt Hacker NewsTotally agree. I really enjoyed the article, and the illustrations are really cool but scale is just something I don’t even consider. Even the very first question baffled me, when it said “Picture a torus. Is it big or small?”
I answered an unambiguous “yes”.
Also, we haven’t defined measure yet here have we? What does it even mean for something to have scale without measure?
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Pay08 • today at 7:48 AM
> Also, we haven’t defined measure yet here have we?
Kilograms, obviously.
Right, I immediately saw a torus - it was light blue (that's trivial to change, but I can't have no colour if it's visual) - but it could have been the size of a bacterium or the size of a galaxy. Without any context or application, the size is undefined.