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Default Thermometers: What's the Problem with Accuracy?

On 02/11/2018 04:56 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 22:32:30 -0000, Cindy Hamilton
wrote:

On Sunday, February 11, 2018 at 5:02:28 PM UTC-5, James Wilkinson
Sword wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 13:42:58 -0000, Cindy Hamilton
wrote:

On Saturday, February 10, 2018 at 7:25:05 PM UTC-5, James Wilkinson
Sword wrote:
On Tue, 06 Feb 2018 17:19:17 -0000, Cindy Hamilton
wrote:

On Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at 12:13:41 PM UTC-5,
wrote:
On Tue, 6 Feb 2018 03:43:26 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
wrote:

On Monday, February 5, 2018 at 1:14:28 PM UTC-5,
wrote:
On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 06:03:05 +0000, Bod
wrote:

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

Understood, but C has become the universal standard.

Where you live anyway. I speak fluent celsius but people
just cock
their head here when I say the water was 22.8 this morning.

Let's see. Round 22.8 up to 23; take 23, double it and add
30: 76.
Close enough for jazz.

Cindy Hamilton

It is really more like 73 and you would notice the 3 degrees if
you
jumped in.

You're not wrong about water. However, I can't remember the
last time I immersed myself in anything but water heated
to 101 F. I'm much more interested in the air temperature.

101F!!! You only get in water hotter than yourself!? How do you
lose your bodyheat? You'd eventually just melt.


Jacuzzi. I only spend about 20 minutes in it. Yesterday the water
temperature
was 101 F and the air temperature was 20 F. I radiated heat
through my head
and shoulders.

I take it to wash you do not immerse but use a shower then.


Correct. I hate tub baths. I haven't willingly had a bath in a
tub since I was 12, apart from one college summer when I sublet a
room in a house that had no shower.


Why are you so afraid of them?


Might have something to do with sitting in a pool of crap you've just
washed off your body? Hate and fear are not the same thing in most
peoples minds.