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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