Comment on Chirp in Fahrenheit

• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wtf is going on with Dalton

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  • Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s a logarithmic scale based on Kelvin, but with constants shoved in there so 0 and 100 would agree with Celsius.

    …stackexchange.com/…/john-daltons-temperature-sca…

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  • spazzman6156@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m more confused about Galen. -4 to 4, 0 is “normal”? 50 c is “normal”? For what??

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In Galen’s scale, the 0 point is 22 °C, an alright room temperature, but the others are described too vaguely for us to convert. It might also be nonlinear. See the explainxkcd.com article

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      • spazzman6156@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Ohh ok thanks for that link! So it is non linear. But not even a consistent curve like log, just if less than zero some factor, if positive a different one. Yuck.

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• multifariace@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  His degrees X would be a good way to show changes over long periods of time by simply graphing the annual adjustments.

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