Science Fiction, Science, Mathematics, Game Design, Scaling.
a square. On the left is one with sides of length 1 and an area of 1 (in feet or whatever units you like, it doesn’t matter). We want to build a bigger square so, on the the right, we double its length to 2. What happens to its area? We can count 4 units. This is not a doubling, but a quadrupling!