There is no up in space. Every direction is the same. Superman could be staring at the Earth from space, and flip his whole body around so that Antarctica is "on top" of the Earth, and then fly "down" to it. Or he could flip 90 degrees so Antarctica is "on the side" of the Earth, and fly straight into it.

That Antarctica is placed at the bottom of every map and globe is completely arbitrary, it's not because it's actually up, down, left, or right. It's just there.

Nowhere in the article does it say that 2 is 20% of 12, either, so what are you arguing about?

I did read the article. It was like one paragraph. 14.4 was a Freudian slip, as I saw it in somebody else's comment as I went to make mine.

But none of that changes the fact that a screen or other rectangle with a 14 (or 14.4) inch diagonal can be 20% larger than a rectangle with a 12 inch diagonal. Just as an example, plugging these formulas into Wolfram alpha:

12=(x^2 + y^2 )^(1/2) (formula for the sides of a rectangle with a 12 inch diagonal)

14=(w^2 + z^2 )^(1/2) (formula for the sides of a rectangle with a 14 inch diagonal)

wz=1.2xy (formula stating that the area of rectangle wz is 20% larger than the area of rectangle xy)

And picking a random reasonable value for w, let's say 7, gives us this as a result (all numbers rounded to two decimal places):

Rectangle xy has sides 7.64 and 9.24, a diagonal length of 12 inches, and an area of 70.72.

Rectangle wz has sides of 7 and 12.12, a diagonal length of 14 inches, and an area of 84.87.

Rectangle wz is exactly 20% larger than rectangle xy.

This would work for a range of values of w.

The size of a screen is measured across its diagonal. It would depend on the exact aspect ratio, but a rectangle with a diagonal of 14 inches could absolutely be 20% larger than one with a diagonal of 12.

Edit: 14 not 14.4