height and width are not the same on different screens (facebook#2533)

* height and width are not the same on different screens height and width render significantly differently on different screens, and that's to be expected. * Rephrased to clarify physical dimensions * port change to the base docs * remove blank line Co-authored-by: Bartosz Kaszubowski <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/docs/height-and-width.md b/docs/height-and-width.md
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ const FixedDimensionsBasics = () => {
 export default FixedDimensionsBasics;
 ```
 
-Setting dimensions this way is common for components that should always render at exactly the same size, regardless of screen dimensions.
+Setting dimensions this way is common for components whose size should always be fixed to a number of points and not calculated based on screen size. Note, that there is no universal mapping from points to physical units of measurement. This means that a component with fixed dimensions might not have the same physical size, across different devices and screen sizes. However, this difference is unnoticable for most use cases.
 
 ## Flex Dimensions
 

diff --git a/website/versioned_docs/version-0.63/height-and-width.md b/website/versioned_docs/version-0.63/height-and-width.md
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ const FixedDimensionsBasics = () => {
 export default FixedDimensionsBasics;
 ```
 
-Setting dimensions this way is common for components that should always render at exactly the same size, regardless of screen dimensions.
+Setting dimensions this way is common for components whose size should always be fixed to a number of points and not calculated based on screen size. Note, that there is no universal mapping from points to physical units of measurement. This means that a component with fixed dimensions might not have the same physical size, across different devices and screen sizes. However, this difference is unnoticable for most use cases.
 
 ## Flex Dimensions