Dimensions in popular culture

[ptc24]

No, not alternate realities, actual dimensions of things. A 2x4 is useful for hitting people with, and of course everyone should know the significance of 1x4x9. But surely there are others that I can't think of...

ETA: OK, there are lots of things which are kind of one dimensional. But how about things which are 2D or 3D like the examples above (or tim's example)?

Comments

[tim]

8x11 glossies?

[pseudomonas]

4x4?

[ptc24]

Hmmm, those aren't dimensions as such (certainly not in the four wheel drive case, I don't know of others).

[ewx]

6 foot. (As in, under.)

[ewx]

45 (rpm record; in particular, as in brimful of Asha on the).

[ewx]

The 6 yard and 18 yard boxes on a football pitch.

[naath]

The B5 credits sometimes (always? I forget which seasons have what) have the size of B5 in them...

[pjc50.livejournal.com]

The metaphorial ten-foot pole with which things will not be touched? Nine milimetre (& various other calibres)? Eight mile? A pint?

[mobbsy]

People usually use area units for 2D objects in popular culture (and in real life), such as Hundred Acre Wood or Three Acres and a cow. Similarly for volumes, people use volume units, such as 10 gallon hat.

Of course, there's the Wales and Olympic Swimming Pool units commonly used for area and volume.

Are you specifically looking for examples where people specify multiple linear dimensions in popular culture? I suppose the Square Mile is sort of an example?

[simont]

If I remember rightly, S1's narration gives the mass ("humans and aliens wrapped in two million five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal, all alone in the night") and S2's gives the length ("a self-contained world five miles long, located in neutral territory"). S3's concentrates more on the plot than the setting, and S4's and S5's are collections of snippets and don't really have time to mention such details.

(With mass and length mentioned, one feels time ought to have turned up as well. I suppose "The year is 2258+n" for 0 ≤ n ≤ 4 might count, but that's not a dimension of the station. Perhaps Sleeping in Light ought to have had a modified narration :-)

[ptc24]

The square mile is getting there. Multiple linear dimensions is sort of what I'm aiming at. I pretty much started with 1x4x9 and thought "there must be other things like that".

On a whim I looked up 2x4 on wikipedia, and that wasn't how I'd imagined it. I know that it's 1.5x3.5 really which makes it flatter, but the thing in my imagination is closer to square that 2x4 would suggest. The imagination can be a silly thing at times.

[jack]

Hm, how about 5x5? :)

[tim]

I guess it's actually 8x10.