16x9 aspect ratio display

James Wilkinson james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Tue Nov 2 13:47:00 UTC 2004


Jeff Vian suggested:
> If you look at the image ratio of the 1280X1024 it is actually 4:3.2
> (commonly referred to as 4:3).

Lew Bloch queried:
> 1280:1024 is exactly 4:3.  How do you get 3.2?

1280 ÷ 1024 = 1.25 = 5:4 = 4:3.2

Now 1280:960 is 4:3.

(One day, I'm going to take a chainsaw to my xorg.conf file and get rid
of 5:4 image ratios...)

James.

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