1. This is a matter of definitions, we're defining range differently in our heads, and regardless of who's definition is wrong, the technical data is there, it's just a difference of definition.
2."The maximum extent or distance limiting operation", that isn't just the hitbox, the "maximum extent of the operation"/"distance limiting the operation" is the total area which the hitbox covers, not the distance the original hitbox is from his original location. The reason is quite simple, if Ganondorf is at point A, and the hitbox is point B, and he travels to point D, causing the hitbox to reach point E, the range is from point B to E, because if an enemy is in point B, E, OR C (which is somewhere between points B and E), then he gets hit.