Re: OT: Rant about degres Celsius (was: introduction)

Roger Mils wrote:
>Andreas Johansson wrote:
> >If I may wager a guess why we use the two word phrase "degrees Celsius",
> >maybe it's copied from expressions like "32 degrees North" seen in
>geography
> >and astronomy?
>
>
>Or simply to clarify whether it's C or F?  If everyone used the same
>system,
>it wouldn't be necessary.
If that was the only reason, we could just as well be saying "water boils at
100 celsius".

BTW, an astronomy textbook I'm reading repeatedly uses the expression
"centigrade degrees".

                                              Andreas

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