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1744? By which time Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit had been dead for nearly a decade?fresh_42 said:I would have posted this as a joke, if ...
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... it wasn't so wrong. So let's make it a quiz:
Who can find the error?
Very good! Two more mistakes, but still not the one I was thinking of.jbriggs444 said:1744? By which time Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit had been dead for nearly a decade?
The Fahrenheit scale was not refined to its modern definition until 1776?fresh_42 said:Very good! Two more mistakes, but still not the one I was thinking of.
The latter, yes.jbriggs444 said:The Fahrenheit scale was not refined to its modern definition until 1776?
Or the reversal of the Celsius scale in 1743?
However, unlike the modern Celsius scale, Celsius assigned a value of 0 °C to the boiling point of water and a value of 100 °C to the freezing point. The modern Celsius scale, in which the boiling point of water is assigned the value 100 °C and the freezing point is assigned the value 0 °C, was introduced by Carl von Linné, a friend of Celsius, shortly after his death in 1744.
Also, he was 42, not 43 at his death.fresh_42 said:Who can find the error?
Numerically however, the math works out that way; Zero-based versus One-based.jack action said:Also, he was 42, not 43 at his death.
What if the cow has fever?Baluncore said:What is it with the USA using Fahrenheit, where a temperature of 100 is defined, as that inside a cow.
But if it was given by God … who was the peer?Baluncore said:I believe that book was peer-reviewed, but not by scientists.
Why God never got tenure:Orodruin said:But if it was given by God … who was the peer?![]()
That was only until his name was placed at the start of the top line.berkeman said:Michael Collins is the only human, living or dead, not contained in the frame of this picture.
Can I be pedantic? (As anything stopped me before?)berkeman said:
Your atoms are...DrClaude said:(I, for one, am not in this picture).
Who is to say? The Earth gains some 5000 tons of space dust per year.Ibix said:Your atoms are...
I just got this! Also, are sure this is not your door??fresh_42 said:
I would have pinned that ...pinball1970 said:I just got this! Also, are sure this is not your door??
Mind you, the distance below which billions die is perhaps 3 ticks from the origin.collinsmark said:
gmax137 said:The sad thing is, people thinking these stupid order-of-operations questions are "math."