Why do some have the need to describe things in the oddest "measurements"? I understand that it makes it easier to imagine sometimes, but "half a" ... never mind, found someone who explains this much better than me: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/for-want-of-a-half-giraffe/

Thanks, Charles C. W. Cooke.

astrsk@fedia.io · 4 pts · 1y

That’s an easy one, down the middle.

otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y

I'm guessing someone started with the banana metric and thought, "Now, bigger."

fartographer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

The third half

TheBat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

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pimento64@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Halving always produces equal proportions

Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Only when halved along a line of symmetry.

A body cut in half at the waist, leaves you with two very different halves despite being the same length/height.

Cut in half along the spine though and you could have two equal, yet mirrored, halves.

With a long neck like a giraffe, half way down the length between the head+tail, one of those 'halves' is going to be much heavier/bulkier.

pimento64@sopuli.xyz · 0 pts · 1y

Then it isn't a half, because half is a term that has a specific meaning.