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Temperature conversions are a little goofy because they are nonlinear. Google's 100F to C is: dfc@ronin:~$ units 2866 units, 109 prefixes, 79 nonlinear uni
by dfc 13y ago
Temperature conversions are a little goofy because they are nonlinear. Google's 100F to C is:
dfc@ronin:~$ units
2866 units, 109 prefixes, 79 nonlinear units
You have: tempF(100)
You want: tempC
37.777778
The full explanation is here: https://www.gnu.org/software/units/manual/units.html#Temperature-Conversions https://www.gnu.org/software/units/manual/units.html#Tempera...
- Tloewald 13y agoI followed the like because I thought maybe i've been doimg temperature conversioms wrong all my life. Temperature conversions are so linear. They need to use a more correct term — e.g. simply proportional. Having to add or substract a constant before or after scaling does not make a relationship non-linear.
- sixbrx 13y agoThis may be getting pedantic, but the relationship is affine not linear - linear would mean k times the original input would yield k times the original output.