Comment on Chirp in Fahrenheit

• Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s the conjecture by Randall and Explain XKCD wiki editors. We can’t tell either way, he just wasn’t specific enough.

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