From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 2 15:48:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from hand.dotat.at (sfo-gw.covalent.net [207.44.198.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F7F237B719 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 15:48:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fanf@dotat.at) Received: from fanf by hand.dotat.at with local (Exim 3.20 #3) id 14YzGW-0001qP-00; Fri, 02 Mar 2001 23:47:16 +0000 Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 23:47:16 +0000 From: Tony Finch To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/units units.1 Message-ID: <20010302234716.J412@hand.dotat.at> References: <3A9E26B2.196CD018@newsguy.com> <20010302114736.C412@hand.dotat.at> <20010302123844.G412@hand.dotat.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: Organization: Covalent Technologies, Inc Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >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". Given that this was nearly 300 years ago and he was inventing the thermometer you have to give him a bit of slack :-) Tony. -- f.a.n.finch fanf@covalent.net dot@dotat.at WIGHT PORTLAND: EASTERLY 4 OR 5, OCCASIONALLY 6. WINTRY SHOWERS. GOOD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message