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[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

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

[-] derekabutton@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

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

Iirc it's 273.15 but yeah, less maths.

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago
[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah that sums it up thanks

[-] Quik@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

they used to exist like 200 years ago

this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2023
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