From owner-cvs-all Thu Mar 1 3:10:37 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from gidgate.gid.co.uk (gid.co.uk [194.32.164.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7BBA37B719; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 03:10:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rb@gidgate.gid.co.uk) Received: (from rb@localhost) by gidgate.gid.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA48359; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:10:26 GMT (envelope-from rb) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010301110524.00b59b80@gid.co.uk> X-Sender: rbmail@gid.co.uk X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 11:09:46 +0000 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" , John Baldwin From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/units units.1 Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3A9E26B2.196CD018@newsguy.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 19:38 01/03/01 +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: >John Baldwin wrote: > > > > On 01-Mar-01 Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > > dcs 2001/02/28 21:51:46 PST > > > > > > Modified files: > > > usr.bin/units units.1 > > > Log: > > > All temperature scales are centigrades. Use "Celsius" instead. > > > > Uhh, I thought only Celsius and Kelvin were? > > > > Fahrenheit uses a different "size" for each degree. > >The size is different, but the scale was created by defining what 0 and >100 degrees F represented, just like Celsius. FWIW, Reaumur was defined against fixed points at 0 and 80 degrees. http://www.ddg.com/LIS/InfoDesignF97/camilla/temperatur.htm -- Bob Bishop +44 (0)118 977 4017 rb@gid.co.uk fax +44 (0)118 989 4254 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message