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

From:Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>
Date:Friday, November 30, 2001, 6:41
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Tristan Alexander McLeay wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Muke Tever wrote: > > By "two parts" I suppose that means "degrees" and "Celsius"; 'degree' > > is just the name of the unit and 'Celsius' an adjective saying what > > scale the unit is on (because degrees are used also to measure angles, > > in the Fahrenheit scale, and some people will even say weird things > > like "degrees kelvin"). > > The kelvin is not used as two parts: absolute zero is zero kelvin (or > `0 K' if you prefer). Why should the degree be used to measure two > unrelated things, anyway? (Apparently, the lack of the `degrees' in > `kelvin' is because the degrees symbol is used in some languages to mean > something, or so says my chem teacher. >
Just to point out that I do realise you were implying that `degrees kelvin' is wrong; I got the wrong punctuation and was using it as an argument to prove the point. <Hits head with hand.> Tristan anstouh@yahoo.com.au War doesn't prove who's right, just who's left. - BSD Games' Fortune