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- From: smb@research.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
- Subject: Re: European track
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.035436.29687@ulysses.att.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:54:36 GMT
- References: <63601@mimsy.umd.edu> <1993Jan22.191052.9723@ntmtv>
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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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.
-
- Nope. Charley was right. He specified a range, so you don't subtract
- the 32. Each degree F is 9/5 of a degree C.
-
- If you want to look at it another way, calculate the Celsius equivalent
- of 100 degrees F and 0 degrees F.
-