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ost_uid0][quote ost_uid0="catalina_marina"][quote ost_uid0]I'll overlook the fact that that's in Fahrenheit, and just be insanely jealous instead.[/quote ost_uid0]You can be jealous about 99 degrees, if it were really 99 degrees, you wouldn't [i ost_uid0]be[/i ost_uid0].[quote ost_uid0]He's just jealous because Fahrenheit is actually more precise, per digit, than Celsius.[/quote ost_uid0]But it's easier to convert Celsius to Kelvin than it is to convert Fahrenheit to Kelvin, so we win. [/quote ost_uid0]:lol: I could make up a pair of temperature scales based on Fahrenheit that merely involved setting a different zero, and then Fahrenheit would be better on that score. :smile: Let's see, there can be the [b ost_uid0]Marina[/b ost_uid0], with its zero at the freezing point (putting 180 at the boiling point and making it blindingly obvious that Fahrenheit [i ost_uid0]is[/i ost_uid0] more precise than Celsius, plus the conversion to Celsius and back is easier), and the [b ost_uid0]Saxamaphone[/b ost_uid0], in which zero is set at "absolute zero" (simplifying the conversion to Kelvin and back).[/color ost_uid0]
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