Re: [gentoo-dev] So...

[George Prowse <cokehabit@gmail.com>]

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