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Re: bIrqu'choH

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: bIrqu'choH
• Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 02:53:12 EST

In a message dated 2/17/2006 9:25:01 PM Central Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> --- Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > ter'eS wrote:
> > >DaHjaj po loS vatlhvI' taDmeH Hat Hutlh muD Hat.
> > >
> > >(Just to throw another idea into the "negative
> > number" hopper!)
> > 
> > "This morning the atmosphere's temperature lacks 4
> > percent freezing 
> > temperature."
> > 
> > I.e. 4 degrees below zero?  (I presume Celsius to
> > make percentages easier 
> > to figure.)
> > 
> 
> Exactly. In fact, that's all centigrade is, at least
> for values above freezing: assuming that the boiling
> point equals 100 percent, then every degree is
> equivalent to that percentage of the boiling point.
> 
> The measurement below freezing is harder to
> quantify, since lower temperatures don't have a
> clearly demarked reference point. I just made an
> analogy with temperatures above freezing, which
> I think is what the Celsius scale did in the first
> place: if each degree above freezing represented
> a distance of 2mm of a mercury column (for example),
> then each degree below freezing also represented
> a distance of 2mm.
> 
> -- ter'eS
> 

If the boiling point equals 100%, then what is it 100% of?  I would expect it 
to be 100% of the total heat content, which would then be about 373 kelvins 
and each percentage of that would be 3.73 kelvins and 0% would be absolute zero.

lay'tel SIvten

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