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On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 08:41:42PM +0000, Luis Medinas wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 15:06 -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote: |
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> > So it's 97 degrees outside.. it's pretty hot... Since everyone loves to |
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> > debate non-technical things on this list.. Let's debate Fahrenheit vs |
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> > Celcius... |
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> > Discuss! |
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> Well Celcius isn't the S.I scale for temperature but it's related with |
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> Kelvin which is the S.I scale for temperature. The conversion formula to |
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> Fahrenheit is °F = (°C × 1.8) + 32 and to kelvin is just K = °C + |
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> 273.15. These days i use more Kelvin than Celcius because it's used on |
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> real life problems i have to solve. |
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Rankine [1] brings you the best of two worlds: Starting at scientific |
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0 degrees, but using the convenient degree scale defined by some |
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obscure water-salt-mixture and a the slight fever of the average |
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gentoo-dev poster. :-) |
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cheers, |
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Wernfried |
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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankine |
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