From: Brett Parker Sent: 03 February 2005 08:10
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:44:16PM +0000, Paul wrote:
Speak for yourself - I'm living the American Dream for a month... Glorious sunshine, temperatures up in the 70's...
Paul, I know you in merka, but can you speak in an english tongue and use celcius instead of fahrenheit, 70 celcius is "rather warm" so I'm assuming you're in fahrenheit and mean 21.1C ;)
Speak for yourself Brett, as far as I'm concerned fahrenheit is English and celcius/centigrade is "foreign muck". 70's works for me! :o)
Regards,
Keith ____________ What you think you own, owns you. - Zen Saying
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:38:05AM -0000, Keith Watson wrote:
From: Brett Parker Sent: 03 February 2005 08:10
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:44:16PM +0000, Paul wrote:
Speak for yourself - I'm living the American Dream for a month... Glorious sunshine, temperatures up in the 70's...
Paul, I know you in merka, but can you speak in an english tongue and use celcius instead of fahrenheit, 70 celcius is "rather warm" so I'm assuming you're in fahrenheit and mean 21.1C ;)
Speak for yourself Brett, as far as I'm concerned fahrenheit is English and celcius/centigrade is "foreign muck". 70's works for me! :o)
It's Swedish [1], admittedly, but given that Fahrenheit[2] is a German invention, they're both foreign... Get with the programme, damn you ;)
Apparently we're supposed to work in SI units, next to go on the list is Miles, but hey, that can wait for a bit, there's far too many signs to change for that ;)
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celcius
Cheers,
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Brett Parker wrote:
Apparently we're supposed to work in SI units
If I were in a hair-splitting mood, I'd point out that this would imply quoting temperatures in Kelvin (Irish.)
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:06:50AM +0000, Dan Hatton wrote:
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Brett Parker wrote:
Apparently we're supposed to work in SI units
If I were in a hair-splitting mood, I'd point out that this would imply quoting temperatures in Kelvin (Irish.)
*Worryingly*, I said that on IRC very shortly after the last post ;) However, given that 1K == 1C, and it's just the starting points that are out (by, erm, 273.15 degrees), it's less important. Most calculations involving these things only need the change in temperature after all, and starting from ice, when our bodies are what, 70% water, seems like a good plan for reporting the weather temperature in ;)
Cheers,
On 2005.02.03 09:38, Keith Watson wrote:
Speak for yourself Brett, as far as I'm concerned fahrenheit is English and celcius/centigrade is "foreign muck". 70's works for me! :o)
I second that!
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