Re: Why is 90 degrees hot?

On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 22:01:14 +0100, "Mike Dworetsky"
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P.S. to offshore readers: I was too lazy to convert all temperatures to
centigrade.

I guess you mean Celsius?

In English, "centigrade" is the same as "degrees Celsius".


Tehcnically, it's Celsius for all languages, including English. Centigrade
is a commonly used word, but not the correct term for the degree units or
scale.

I believe Centigrade is the scale where water freezes at 0 and boils
at 100. Celsius is the scale where the triple point of water is 0.01
and absolute zero is -273.15.. That makes water freeze at 0 but boil
at 99.9839.

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