Date: 02 Mar 2001 13:23:52 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/units units.1 Message-ID: <xzp66hsnyuf.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Tony Finch's message of "Fri, 2 Mar 2001 11:47:36 %2B0000" References: <XFMail.010228235054.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <3A9E26B2.196CD018@newsguy.com> <20010302114736.C412@hand.dotat.at>
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Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> writes: > "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> wrote: > > The size is different, but the scale was created by defining what 0 and > > 100 degrees F represented, just like Celsius. > I thought Farenheit was defined based on 0 and 96, since when it was > invented it was much easier to make the graduations on a thermometer > by divisions of 2 and 3 rather than 2 and 5. No, 0 and 100. 100 degrees Farenheit is very slightly above normal body temperature, allegedly the person he used as benchmark was running a slight fever that day. I'm not complaining, though - "101 Farenheit degrees" doesn't sound quite as cool as "99.9 Farenheit degrees" DES (it may be normal but it isn't quite...) -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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