[muglo] Re: RANT on Canadian imperial settings & politics(wasRe: OS Autoconnect)
- From: "Eric D." <hideme666@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 20:44:40 -0400
What about Kelvin's scale? It is the most logical of the lot. Not only does
his use a logical scale (100 units between freezing point and boiling point
of H2O... vs. 180 for the one used by our not-so-efficient neighbOrs to the
south), but it also dispenses with the need for negative values! Admittedly,
remembering 0 for freezing point of water is a lot easier than 32 or 273.15
(rather relevant to human-kind since we kind of die with prolonged exposure
to sub-0 temperatures).
PS Technically Kelvin is the preferred SI unit for temperature though
Celsius is of more practical value in every-day use because of the freezing
point of water.
Found a site that will prove useful in the coming month... (I've been
playing with SI units for 17 years now and I still am sometimes caught
off-guard as to what exactly is proper format):
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/checklist.html
Eric.
on 29/7/03 12:06 PM, Eurogarth at eurogarth@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Perhaps not so "more sensible" after all.
>
> ;-) Garth
>
> http://www.astro.uu.se/history/celsius_scale.html
>
>
>
>> If you think F was stupid for measurements how about Celcius. When it began
>> the
>> idiot had water boiling at Zero degrees and freezing at 100 degrees. Many
>> years
>> later a more sensible scholar decided it would be better to switch it around
>> so it
>> froze at the cold temperature and boiled at the hotter. But then again this
>> was
>> the beginning of metric.
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