From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 2 4:24: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAA9E37B718 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 04:24:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA84775; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 13:23:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Tony Finch Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/units units.1 References: <3A9E26B2.196CD018@newsguy.com> <20010302114736.C412@hand.dotat.at> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 02 Mar 2001 13:23:52 +0100 In-Reply-To: Tony Finch's message of "Fri, 2 Mar 2001 11:47:36 +0000" Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tony Finch writes: > "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > The size is different, but the scale was created by defining what 0 and > > 100 degrees F represented, just like Celsius. > I thought Farenheit was defined based on 0 and 96, since when it was > invented it was much easier to make the graduations on a thermometer > by divisions of 2 and 3 rather than 2 and 5. No, 0 and 100. 100 degrees Farenheit is very slightly above normal body temperature, allegedly the person he used as benchmark was running a slight fever that day. I'm not complaining, though - "101 Farenheit degrees" doesn't sound quite as cool as "99.9 Farenheit degrees" DES (it may be normal but it isn't quite...) -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message