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What opinions do you have that you consider (shallow && pedantic)? (lemmy.world)

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I choose to believe chestnuts are lazy.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Difference in temperature cannot be expressed in °C. It’s not 5 °C warmer today than yesterday. It’s 5 K warmer. You can say “five degrees warmer”, but not “five degrees Celsius warmer” or “five Celsius warmer”. “Five Celsius degrees warmer” is also correct, but who’d do that?

The reason is that the Celsius scale has a fixed offset. If your birthday is in a week, you wouldn’t say it’s “one seventh of January from today”.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was not aware of this before and this is probably one of the most pedantic things I've heard for a while - great answer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Glad you appreciate it for what it is.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

The reason is that the Celsius scale has a fixed offset.

Can you explain more on this? I still don't get it.

As of now, although I am not a man of authority on this subject, I still think temperature difference can be expressed by using celcius simply because the celcius has the same equivalent difference as Kelvin. The difference of the two value of the same unit will still be the same unit.

First, from here

Since the standardization of the kelvin in the International System of Units, it has subsequently been redefined in terms of the equivalent fixing points on the Kelvin scale, so that a temperature increment of one degree Celsius is the same as an increment of one kelvin, though numerically the scales differ by an exact offset of 273.15.

Secondly from here

The degree Celsius (symbol: °C) can refer to a specific point on the Celsius temperature scale or to a difference or range between two temperatures.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

TIL; January has 49 days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank fuck I'm from the US and don't have to fuck with any unit conversion fuckery.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The same applies to Fahrenheit, differences between temperatures in Fahrenheit should be expressed using the Rankine scale.