* Re: [gentoo-dev] So...
@ 2007-07-16 20:17 99% ` Wernfried Haas
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From: Wernfried Haas @ 2007-07-16 20:17 UTC (permalink / raw
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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
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