Greetings,
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Lee wrote:
> David Aikema wrote:
>
> > On December 22, 2001 06:51 pm, Lee wrote:
> > > > It got to 37C about 1.30 and is still 30C at the moment. Fans do little
> > > > to cool one down and I had 3 travel jobs to do today. That meant driving
> > > > with aircon struggling, so much so that I burnt my hand getting back in
> > > > after an hr and 30 on the steering wheel, also the safety belt buckle was
> > > > just to hard to fasten. There is no sign of a good storm to cool things
> > > > down.
> > >
> > > 37C? What does that come to in real temperature (F)?
> >
> > C = 5/9(F-32) so... which works out to roughly 100F
> >
> > David Aikema
>
> That's one thing about us rude colonials we still use the mother country's
> measuring system so we don't have to remember all those complicated math
> formulas.
Too bad we blew it back in the late 70's, early 80's when we were
*supposed* to move over to the metric system. Base-10 is FAR better a
measurement scale than Base-the-kings-feet and other arbitrary scales.
0c = pure water freezes 32f
100c = pure water boils (at sea level) 212f
1g = 1cc pure water (in liquid state)
1calorie = raise 1cc pure water 1c in 1minute
Dang! Nice how dimensional measurements and mass and temperature all
relate to one another like that :-)
--- Jay
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