Units of Measure

Originally Posted by Random_guy

Depends what you mean. If you're going to be exact about it then twice as cold is half the heat. So....

absolute zero is -273 degrees c. so 0 is +273 from absolute zero, therefore if it's twice as cold the next day it'll be -136.5 degrees centigrade.

Nope -8.8 digrees C

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Originally Posted by Random_guy

Not everything should be made metric. Afterall, it's used because our number system is in base 10, and the only reason that's in base 10 is because we evolved with 10 fingers! :-p

Well the Babylonians had only ten fingers as well, yet four thousand years ago they were doing some advanced maths in base 60!

Looking straight ahead and without moving your eyes, test your angle of vision from the corner of yoiur left eye to the corner of your right and have someone put down a marker at the periphery; then turn so the marker is at the periphery of your left eye and repeat. You will find it takes almost exactly six repetitions to come back to the starting point. The Babylonians divided the angle of vision by sixty; that's why we have 360 degrees in a circle. They used a sixty-hour week, which was divided into five (number of fingers on one hand!) periods of day and five of night; twelve hours in each, which is where the imperial measure fixation with dozens stems from. Here we are, four thousand years later, and even on a FITA (supposedly metric) round, we still count arrows in dozens! And of course, those degrees of angle; they navigated all over the known world using this system - and we're still doing that too!

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There's an obscene use of gray matter in here!!!

[morphymick]

I always thought 90 degrees was 1600 mils.

0 Celsius = 32 Fahrenheit, therefore twice as cold (half heat) = 16F = -8.8888888888888C.

RGS wins IMO.

Mick

Originally Posted by morphymick

I always thought 90 degrees was 1600 mils.

0 Celsius = 32 Fahrenheit, therefore twice as cold (half heat) = 16F = -8.8888888888888C.

RGS wins IMO.

Mick

Ta MM, trust a student to over complicate things

[Random_guy]

Hate to point it out guys, but farenheit doesn't start from absolute zero, and so you can't half the temperature to get half the heat. And the original question doesn't make sense strictly as you can't have 'twice as cold' without something to compare it too. Sorry, the laws of thermodynamics say no!

And keeping it on topic (roughly anyway) does anyone use farenheit anymore? I have even less of an understanding of that than of £sd, and that's saying something!

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And also, it has to be said, all things imperial are cool! (says the student from imperial college.....)

[morphymick]

Originally Posted by Random_guy

And keeping it on topic (roughly anyway) does anyone use farenheit anymore?

My mum, and don't even think about trying to convert her, I can't even get her to shut doors after her.

Mick