At 00:09 3/4/02, you wrote:
John who knows all has slipped a bit. -30C equals -22F. The finer pitch of
F doesn't catch up with the difference in zero points until -40 degrees
where C=F.
I don't know all, but knew that was not right, so I looked it up.
Moose
You're absolutely right: -30C = -22F (still a little chilly for a
freezer). I blindly used my calculator instead of doing a mental sanity
check with the conversion equation. Looked odd, ran it thrice and didn't
really think about it. Turns out the calculator has a problem with its
conversion algorithm when minus numbers are entered for the temperature to
convert from. This should be interesting; it's a TI-85 and I'll contact TI
about it. Odd that my TI-36, a dirt cheap throw-away, does the conversion
correctly.
-- John
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