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Thermometers: What's the Problem with Accuracy?
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Thermometers: What's the Problem with Accuracy?
On Sun, 4 Feb 2018 17:54:48 +0000, Bod wrote:
On 04/02/2018 17:11,
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On Sun, 04 Feb 2018 11:51:08 -0500, "(PeteCresswell)"
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I've been trying to buy four refrigerator/freezer thermometers and it's
frustrating how inaccurate/inconsistent they are.
http://www.leevalley.com/us/garden/P...=2,40733,40734
As an aside, I'm surprised that the US is still using Fahrenheit instead
of the universal Centigrade.
There's only about 8 countries that still use F.
Fahrenheit remains the official scale for the following countries:
The Bahamas, Belize, the Cayman Islands, Palau and the United States and
associated territories (Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands).
Canada retains it as a supplementary scale that can be used alongside
Celsius.
We use what we are used to. OTOH Fahrenheit gives you about twice the
precision without resorting to decimals. I am comfortable with both
since my science friends are all C
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