For weather I don't feel the need to distinguish between 67°F and 68°F. "High 60s" is close enough for most conversations.
I suppose you already know this, but when someone (I forget who) first worked out the normal human temperature, he measured a number of people and arrived at an average of 37°C, plus or minus a few degrees. 37°C got translated to 96.6°F, which became a way-too-precise number adhered to by way-too-many moms. "99! You have a temperature! Get to bed!" --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it. -Sam Levenson */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Spiegel Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 12:22 Yeah, except that Fahrenheit degrees are smaller. For the same accuracy, you'd have to resort to digits to the right of the decimal point. Feh! --- On 2020-07-22 12:15, Bob Bridges wrote: > Interesting; centigrade is the one system I use nowadays without having to > think much about it. It's so easy: 0s are cold, 10s are cool, 20s are > warm, 30s are hot. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
