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"Degrees Kelvin". Yeah, I've actually heard that.
by Vecr 3y ago
"Degrees Kelvin". Yeah, I've actually heard that.
- laingc 3y agoTo be fair, that is actually common in physics. Elsewhere obviously not so much.
- defrost 3y agoCelsius = Kelvin + offset in any case, they're not so different .. not like that other scale used in very few countries.
- mdturnerphys 3y agoI think the point was that it's just "Kelvin" not "degrees Kelvin"
- laingc 3y agoI didn’t pick that up, but I suppose that’s fair. I’ve heard both, as I have with Celsius.
- pwdisswordfishc 3y agoIt's an obsolete name, but was official at one point.
- mbork_pl 3y ago"It's an old code, but it checks out." :-P
- jgilias 3y agoWhat do you mean? It’s a different scale that has the same ‘unit length’ as Celsius, but it’s not the same. Also, it’s very much ‘current’ in the physics context.
- dghf 3y agoI'm assuming they mean the "degrees" part. These days, the standard is to say (for example) 200 kelvin, not 200 degrees Kelvin.
- arrowsmith 3y agoThey meant that the name "degree Kelvin" is obsolete (since 1967 according to Wikipedia), not that the unit of measurement itself is obsolete.