Baby how cold is it oitside?

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• JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just looked at the Wikipedia page. What is the reason for so many fucking scales?

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  • snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Different people deciding at different times that they need to measure temperature for something specific and then varying degrees of adoption.

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    • derekabutton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well Kelvin makes some math much easier. Formulas look pretty if you don’t need to remove 213 a bunch of times.

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  • Zorque@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    https://xkcd.com/927/

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    • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah that sums it up thanks

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    • Quik@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is there any research on which xkcds are cited most often?

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  • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The purpose for this one is for scientists that normally use Fahrenheit. Those people don’t really exist though

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    • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      they used to exist like 200 years ago

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• SHITPOSTING_ACCOUNT@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Title made me think centimeters.

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• Epicurus0319@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Kelvin mostly seems to be used to measure really hot (like ovens, metal forges, stars) or really cold (e.g. planets beyond Mars) things, Fahrenheit still exists only because the US Congress was lazy (though as an American I do find it somewhat useful for comparing weather and Earth’s climate zones in finer detail than just -1 in winter and 28 in summer), and I’ve never heard of that last one.

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  • Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Kelvin is useful in physics because it’s always positive, reducing the amount of shenanigans.

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• MrQuallzin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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