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[-] [email protected] 86 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Kelvin is an absolute scale, not measured in degrees

[-] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

Isn’t radians a measure of angles, or am I not getting the joke?

[-] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago

That was the joke, which I was trying to help further by pretending that there was nothing wrong with that.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Who are you so wise in the ways of science?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

The joke is because of "degrees" (also to measure angles) and "radians"

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I mean, you could just convert the Farenheit or Celsius degrees to radians like they were angle degrees. "Bake at 6.109 radians for 45 minutes" still can mean "Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes" if you accept the implicit Farenheit scale. Radians would still be ambiguous regarding the base scale used, but it's as ambiguous as "degrees" is so not really an issue.

So I mean, there's no real reason to do it but also no reason you can't.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

You have to specify radians fahrenheit for that so we don't confuse it with radians Celsius and blacken the thing.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Except temperature degrees aren't related angle degrees. You'd be using a pun as a unit conversion.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Oh they're unrelated, and it's a pointless conversion I know.

Technically speaking these would be unrelated radians under the same name measuring different units. But you could still do it if you really wanted

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Not sure if amused or horrified.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Well look at mister smarty-pants with his science facts over here!

[-] Socsa 10 points 6 months ago

My scale for expressing mean kinetic energy flux is superior to your scale for expressing mean kinetic energy flux. I have formed an identity around this and will smugly argue about it on the internet.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Hey now, I don't argue for Celsius, I just argue against people saying Fahrenheit is better for silly reasons.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Gradians.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Multivectors.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Just go for Fahrenkelsius, it's the obvious choice

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

This confuses me. That's why I only use fairandheight.

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