5 Mar
2013
5 Mar
'13
9:41 p.m.
On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Fred Cisin wrote:
Have you ever read Ray Bradbury's other book, "Fahrenheit -459.6"?
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
> Not me!.
Assuming you mean pure water at normal atmospheric pressure I'll
> ahve 273.15 for freezign and 373.15 for boiling.
On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, Liam
Proven wrote:
[Grin] Well all right, yes, Kelvin is sensible in
a way. Zero is
really zero. OTOH, I very rarely have any use for temperatures much
below zero or much above 100, so the 0-to-100 decimal scale suits me
very well. Having a more sensible one that measures temperatures I
never need to measure is of limited utility to me.
Seems like I NEVER seem to need to care about temperatures below
0 Kelvin, nor even Rankin!
And, this year, right here, it didn't get below 0 Fahrenheit, Celsius, nor
even Centigrade.
Definitely Somebody Else's Problem.