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Baby how cold is it oitside? (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Just looked at the Wikipedia page. What is the reason for so many fucking scales?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Different people deciding at different times that they need to measure temperature for something specific and then varying degrees of adoption.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well Kelvin makes some math much easier. Formulas look pretty if you don't need to remove 213 a bunch of times.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Iirc it's 273.15 but yeah, less maths.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah that sums it up thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Is there any research on which xkcds are cited most often?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The purpose for this one is for scientists that normally use Fahrenheit. Those people don't really exist though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

they used to exist like 200 years ago