I’m more confused about Galen. -4 to 4, 0 is “normal”? 50 c is “normal”? For what??
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SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 22 hours agoWtf is going on with Dalton
spazzman6156@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 8 hours ago
In Galen’s scale, the 0 point is 22 °C, an alright room temperature, but the others are described too vaguely for us to convert. It might also be nonlinear. See the explainxkcd.com article
spazzman6156@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Ohh ok thanks for that link! So it is non linear. But not even a consistent curve like log, just if less than zero some factor, if positive a different one. Yuck.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 32 minutes ago
That’s the conjecture by Randall and Explain XKCD wiki editors. We can’t tell either way, he just wasn’t specific enough.
Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
It’s a logarithmic scale based on Kelvin, but with constants shoved in there so 0 and 100 would agree with Celsius.
…stackexchange.com/…/john-daltons-temperature-sca…