howdy,
so yeah,
One collumn is made up of two ASCII characters because printed ASCII characters are approximately twice as tall as they are wide, so to make it look more nice, and like a box, one collumn is made up of 2 characters
ie:
##
##
##
##
while one row is made up of only a single ASCII character
better example of output, each collumn is a different color
########< --1st row
########< --2nd row
########< --3rd row
so the above would be a rectangle with 4 collumns, and 3 rows