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My monitor's resolution is 1366x768. But I'm also able to configure it to 1360x768 (note the zero), thus implying that monitors of this size exist. Occasionally, when I plug my laptop into my TV I lose the extra three pixels on each side, but only notice because the screen tells me the resolution. Why do two different monitor sizes of nearly the same size exist?

This is not a duplicate of Why does 1366x768 resolution exist?. The actual resolution is irrelevant. I'm asking about the need for two resolutions that are very close in size. If the resolutions up for debate were hypothetically 1024x768 and 1020x768 (note the width), I would still be asking this question.

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1366×768 8-bit pixels is just above 1MiB (by 512 bytes), so it does not fit into an 8Mbit memory chip.

1360 is also divisible with both 8 and 16, enabling simplified and optimized algorithms for processing graphics.

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