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minus-squareJusticeForPorygon@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 year agoJust looked at the Wikipedia page. What is the reason for so many fucking scales?
minus-squaresnugglesthefalselinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·1 year agoDifferent people deciding at different times that they need to measure temperature for something specific and then varying degrees of adoption.
minus-squarederekabutton@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoWell Kelvin makes some math much easier. Formulas look pretty if you don’t need to remove 213 a bunch of times.
minus-squaresnugglesthefalselinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoIirc it’s 273.15 but yeah, less maths.
minus-squareJusticeForPorygon@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoYeah that sums it up thanks
minus-squareQuik@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIs there any research on which xkcds are cited most often?
minus-squarePotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoThe purpose for this one is for scientists that normally use Fahrenheit. Those people don’t really exist though
minus-squareTonyTonyChopper@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agothey used to exist like 200 years ago
Just looked at the Wikipedia page. What is the reason for so many fucking scales?
Different people deciding at different times that they need to measure temperature for something specific and then varying degrees of adoption.
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.
https://xkcd.com/927/
Yeah that sums it up thanks
Is there any research on which xkcds are cited most often?
The purpose for this one is for scientists that normally use Fahrenheit. Those people don’t really exist though
they used to exist like 200 years ago