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NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Also Rankine, being an absolute scale, theoretically shouldn’t be in ° anything, and it’s only some weird historical quirk that is the reason it usually is called degrees.

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  • Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I am not sure I follow that. The scale is always relative right? It’s just the zero that’s absolute. But that’s also the case with measuring angles where we do use the degree symbol.

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s just the zero that’s absolute

      Right, that’s what makes Rankine and Kelvin absolute scales, while Fahrenheit and Celsius are relative.

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• fishpen0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Good thing °R and °RA aren’t pointing guns at each other

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  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This screenshot is a little bit hard to see, but from what I can tell:

    °RA is pointing at °R and °C
    °C is pointing at K and °F
    K is pointing at °R and at °F
    °R is pointing at °F (and the other gun isn’t aimed at anyone in particular)
    °F is pointing at K and at °C

    Emphasis disproves your claims, sadly. Perhaps there was another way to label them to make it fit, but that’s not what was done here.

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• RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  °R and °Ra are the exact same thing (??)

  I think °R is supposed to be Réaumur

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