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[-] sevon@lemmy.kde.social 84 points 1 month ago
[-] Pazuzu@midwest.social 32 points 1 month ago

metric is great until you need to do anything practical with it like converting cricket chirps to degrees ^/s^

Assuming one spherical cricket in a vacuum

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You can't hear a cricket chirp in a vacuum.

The motor is too loud.

[-] C8r9VwDUTeY3ZufQRYvq@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 weeks ago

Ignoring air resistance?

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 39 points 1 month ago

...or count the chirps in 8 seconds and add 4.

Why am I taking 25seconds and dividing by 3? Accuracy?

[-] TheMetaleek@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 month ago

My guess would be better approximation as you avoid a "fluke", as 8 second is a very short time where nothing could easily happen even with crickets being present

[-] yimby@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago

I'm just bothered they chose divide by 3, instead of 16 seconds divide by 2 which is wayyy easier

[-] NuraShiny@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

If you count only for 8 seconds, it will be inaccurate, you need to count for 8 and 1/3 seconds!

[-] essell@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago

Wow.

It's zero degrees here in June.

Weird.

[-] Zron@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

How did you hear negative chirps?

Can I learn this power?

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago
[-] psud@aussie.zone -2 points 1 month ago

Using the metric version you can get zero with no chirps. The method doesn't work at all for the current temperature though, you can't get -1°C any way

[-] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nope,, 0 / 3 = 0 -> 0 + 4 = 4°C

Division/Multiplication always goes before Addition/Subtraction.

[-] Zron@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

That’s but how math works, doesn’t matter if you use the American or metric formula

[-] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 2 points 1 month ago

Hello fellow southernhemispherian, how does it feel bring safe from nuclear winter?

[-] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 21 points 1 month ago

How do you count just one cricket's chirps? There are usually tons of them.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago

Everyone counts their own crickets and then you add the results together.

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

Count faster.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Glad to know it's America and crickets that find fahrenheit more convenient for temperature.

[-] Today@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I think that's how we got fahrenheit.

[-] kurwa@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Actually it was originally based on the freezing temperature of a brine and human body temperature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit

[-] appelkooskonfyt@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

No I'm pretty sure it was crickets.

[-] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Ah, so 32° is when an unknown concentration of human brine freezes, and 98.6° is the average human temperature

What am I even reading any more

[-] Macallan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I think the brine probably froze at 0° F, which ended up correlating to 32° F for regular water. And the body temperature at 100° F ended up correlating to 212° F for water to boil. That's the way I understand it anyway.

[-] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Fahrenheit temperature scale, scale based on 32° for the freezing point of water and 212° for the boiling point of water, the interval between the two being divided into 180 equal parts. The 18th-century physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit originally took as the zero of his scale the temperature of an equal ice-salt mixture and selected the values of 30° and 90° for the freezing point of water and normal body temperature, respectively; these later were revised to 32° and 96°, but the final scale required an adjustment to 98.6° for the latter value.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

What the hell was the brine that it required it to be 32° below the freezing point of water? Even salt water would have frozen by that point.

[-] Macallan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Far fewer people know that 0° and 100° in Fahrenheit also correspond to specific real-world values. 0°F corresponds to a temperature where a brine is made of equal parts ice, water, and ammonium chloride. Such a brine, interestingly, is a frigorific mixture, meaning that it stabilizes to a specific temperature regardless of the temperature that each component started at. Thus, it makes for a really nice laboratory-stable definition of a temperature. Similarly, 100°F was initially set at "blood heat" temperature, or the human body temperature. While not super precise, it was a fairly stable value. As good as anything in the early 1700s.

Source from a quick Google search: https://gregable.com/2014/06/temperature-scales.html

[-] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Really it was "find something that is different to the reseller scales"

[-] kurwa@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

It was actually based on an existing scale called the Rømer scale

[-] Widdershins@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

I feel like parentheses don't belong in explaining math if they aren't used appropriately.

[-] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

30 chirps + (added to) 40 = 70

[-] NuraShiny@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

I guess Summer's over, it's 4 degrees celsius where I currently am.

[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago
[-] NuraShiny@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

How did you count negative chirps?

[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Negative occurrences are imaginary numbers, and reading about crickets caused me to imagine hearing them.

[-] NuraShiny@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

...I will accept this explanation.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

How many crickets did you imagine? I want to make sure the maths works out.

[-] MyFriendGodzilla@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

But what species is the cricket?

[-] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I was expecting some kind of Duckworth-Lewis formula.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Test or One-Day?

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