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It's not proportional, but the equation for going from one to another is that of a line. I would think this would be called linear, but that mean something mor
by drdeca 12y ago
It's not proportional, but the equation for going from one to another is that of a line.
I would think this would be called linear, but that mean something more specific?
- icegreentea 12y agoIn engineering, linearity refers to having two properties: a) f(x+y) = f(x) + f(y) where x, y, are two values, and f is a linear transform/function b) af(x) = f(ax) where a is constant In this case, the transform is the conversion between C and F. Since there is +/32 in there depending on direction, neither of these properties hold. For example, yards to meters is a linear transform. 3 yards converted to meters + 2 yards converted to meters = 5 yards converted to meters. This is not true of temperature. Adding 32F to 32F gives 64F, which is not the same as adding 0C to 0C.
- drdeca 12y agoThanks! I wasn't aware of that(the) definition.
- ppereira 12y agoIn geometry, this would be an affine transformation.