From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 2 5:16:43 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 CF71037B71B for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 05:16:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA85006; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 14:16:37 +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> <20010302123844.G412@hand.dotat.at> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 02 Mar 2001 14:16:36 +0100 In-Reply-To: Tony Finch's message of "Fri, 2 Mar 2001 12:38:44 +0000" Message-ID: Lines: 14 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: > : "placing the thermometer in a mixture of sal ammoniac or sea > : salt, ice, and water a point on the scale will be found which is > : denoted as zero. A second point is obtained if the same mixture > : is used without salt. Denote this position as 30. A third point, > : designated as 96, is obtained if the thermometer is placed in > : the mouth so as to acquire the heat of a healthy man." (D. G. > : Fahrenheit,Phil. Trans. (London) 33, 78, 1724) Heh. Only if you define "healthy" as "hypothermiac". DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message