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- From: jonathan@CS.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan Stone)
- Subject: temperature ranges [was Re: European track]
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.020501.7475@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:05:01 GMT
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- kwyatt@ccscola.Columbia.NCR.COM (Kershner Wyatt) writes:
- >Small nit. 55 deg C is 131 deg F.
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- Your claim is correct for actual temperatures. (I can't say
- absolute there, but it's closer to what I mean, in a mathematical
- but not thermodynamic sense.).
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- But a _range_ of 55 degrees Celsius is, almost exactly,
- a _range_ of 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
-
- Your own nit shows this clearly, if considered as a range
- from the freezing point of water at atmospheric pressure:
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- 0 deg.C + 50 deg. C ~= 32 deg. F + 100 deg. F.
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- sci.railroad, anyone?
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