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

From:Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>
Date:Sunday, December 2, 2001, 4:44
Nik Taylor wrote:
> Celsius degrees would work just as well as degrees Celsius.
To my ear, "Celsius degrees" describes the unit size but not the reference point; I might say, for example, "the Kelvin scale measures in Celsius degrees from absolute zero." -- Anton Sherwood -- http://www.ogre.nu/