I have to disagree; basing a scale on water, the single most important and plentiful compound on Earth, makes a lot more sense the basing it on another compound, say Al(NO3)3.
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Is -6 colder than -8?
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It does make more sense though to say that water freezes at 0 then at 32. The metric system just makes more sense. I have spent the past year at work converting what ever I could to metric to avoid confusion, especially when dealing with critical temperatures.
Still pretty close.
Even at -40 where they should be the same.
-40 * 2 + 30 --> -50
Yes for us brain challenged (read decimal) folks!
Stubborn I see!OK, that makes sense, but I'm still going to stick with 1.8.
For me, I'll just stick to the approximation since it is so easy to do in my head.
From C to F: Double, and then add 30.
From F to C: Subtract 30, and then divide by 2.
Unless, of course, I am doing some important calculations. Then I'll use the real formulas.
In the context, the question was not whether -6 degrees Celsius is warmer or colder than -8 degrees, the question was whether it was "higher" or "lower". As you just said yourself, owing £6 is _less_ than owing £8. -6 degrees is less cold than -8.
And this was about lottery tickets and the rules for winning. If you design a lottery ticket, which is a million dollar business, then surely you can put in a bit of effort to make sure the rules are so clear that they are impossible to misunderstand. Otherwise you get complaints, which cost money, and worse, you rip off customers who don't realise they have won because the rules are too complicated.
They asked for a temperature which was lower than -8. In the context -6 is higher than -8. In fact -6 is higher / warmer / more than -8 in any context. I don't understand where the confusion could come in. You just need to draw a number line to see that.
Rankin' on Kelvin
And here I thought it was 273 for freezing and 373 for boiling
-hh
And here I thought it was 273 for freezing and 373 for boiling
-hh
i vote we use the rankine scale
farenheit is nice as it provides more differentiation than celcius or kelvin....
farenheit is nice as it provides more differentiation than celcius or kelvin....
lmao. i was just thinking the same thing. let her come to canada and ask what is colder. i mean, -6 to -8 is only 4 degrees difference
, but ask about -8 or -20 and she'd know pretty quickly.i kind of feel sorry for her. there will be a moment when someone pulls her aside and whispers some basic math to her.
doh!
lol
what sad is how few people have ever even heard of rankine or know what it is.
In cause you are wondering Rankine to to Farenheit as Kelvin is to Celcius.
0 Rankine = 0 Kelvin which is absolute Zero.
Now now I only used rankine for a few short weeks over the summer 2 years ago in thermo.
lol what makes water so speical.
farentheit was from wikipedia
" is that the mixture of ice, salt, and water registered the lowest temp temperature Fahrenheit could attain in the lab, so he used that for his zero point, using his body temperature as 96 °F"
There are alot of theories it seems as well
And why, precisely, is that sad? When did knowledge of scientific jargon become a barometer of intellectual sophistication?
What is really sad is the current state of written English...
And what has The Rankin Miss P got to do with temperature?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2005/05/04/miss_p_person_profile.shtml
For everyone else....it's mathematics or maths not math.
I laughed, but now I'm just disappointed, there really needs to be some kind of IQ test, if you don't pass, extermination, it's only fair to the rest of us...
Which has always confused the hell out of me. If you shorten mathematics it is logical to shorten it to maths. The only reason I can think for the yanks to say math is if they have a French influence and are actually shortening mathematique rather than mathematics.
maths? what the heck sounds so wierd
ill call it math as i have been since i knew what it was lol
ill call it math as i have been since i knew what it was lol
uh, correction, it's part of "The 3 R's" - Reading, Righting and Rithmatic...
Yes, -6 IS colder than -8. It's LESS COLDER ... it's sort of a "dry cold"...
In the American way of english mathematics is an actionable verb not a pleural noun.So math would be the logical short of mathematics.
Examples :
actionable verb :/adjective
Peace studied mathematics in college and does math as a hobby.
Yes.Americans are a bit strange but you can thank us for taking over the world!!
"Math" sounds really weird. "Maths" sounds normal.
Why should I believe that from someone who doesn't put spaces after full stops, but does before ':'
In the American way of english mathematics is an actionable verb not a pleural noun.So math would be the logical short of mathematics.
Examples :
actionable verb :/adjective
Peace studied mathematics in college and does math as a hobby.
Yes.Americans are a bit strange but you can thank us for taking over the world!!
Why should I believe that from someone who doesn't put spaces after full stops, but does before ':'
"Math" sounds really weird. "Maths" sounds normal.
Why should I believe that from someone who doesn't put spaces after full stops, but does before ':'
I never said I could type.