Centigrade or Celsius ?

Dec 23, 2021 Last reply: 4 years ago 4 Replies

Hi,



I grew up using Fahrenheit, then centigrade and now Celsius.



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The true and whacky story.


..... Phil


Interesting explanation of this. My old reference books use centigrade, and I was taught it was just an archaic usage, but not wrong.

He sure loves to wave his hands around...

Robert Baer wrote: ================

** He looks and sounds like he has been trained in public speaking. It's a technique to keep the listeners attention by emphasising particular words and phrases.

There is little need for it with that vid, where he only appears intermittently.

...... Phil

On a sunny day (Fri, 24 Dec 2021 13:48:51 -0800) it happened Robert Baer snipped-for-privacy@localnet.com wrote in <16c3cf3a9f3196ef$1$3804014$ snipped-for-privacy@news.thecubenet.com>:

Once went to the local doctor after I was bitten by a tick and got a red spot on my arm She asked : Did you have a temperature? I said no, and gave here it in degrees Kelvin. She said: Did you measure that or calculate it? We had some interesting discussion how I measured that.

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