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- From: CZ94@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA (CZ94)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Temperature extremes (was Re: European track)
- Message-ID: <22JAN93.16343914.0109@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 20:07:59 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.191052.9723@ntmtv> adrian@ntmtv.UUCP (Adrian Brandt) writes:
- >In article <63601@mimsy.umd.edu>, mangoe@cs.umd.edu (Charley Wingate) writes:
- >> It might be pointed out that the range of AVERAGE daily temperature in the
- >> american plains is on the order of 100 degrees F (~55 degrees C).
- >
- >Nope. Try ~38 degrees C. Recall that: C(F) = (F - 32) / 1.8.
- >
- Yup. If the temperature ranges from 0 to 100 F, then it ranges
- from -18 to (about) +38 C, for a variation of 56 C. Charley's
- close enough, Adrian's wrong.
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- Tom Box
- CZ94@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA
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