On 02/05/2018 06:45 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:

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But it's stupidly designed.* C is sensible: 0 is the freezing point of
water, 100 is boiling point, easy to understand.* Why don't you also use
some weird base for maths, sorry math, instead of 10?

Note that in both systems, the 0-degree point is artificial. That is, it
is NOT the same as the temperature that corresponds to no heat. That
system is Kelvin. They use it with light bulbs