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Default Thermometers: What's the Problem with Accuracy?

On 02/06/2018 08:02 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:

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If you're doing something really scientific, you use Kelvin.* For
everyday use, best to stick to water and Celsius.* Not really useful to
say it's 273K today, it was 283K yesterday.* Meaningless.


Mostly true, but irrelevant to the idea that 0 (in both F and C) is
artificial.

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