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From: jurjen@cwi.nl (Jurjen NE Bos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Units Problems...
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Date: 25 Sep 90 15:18:17 GMT
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jn190068@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU (Jay Lewis Nestle) writes:


>	
>	I was working on a simple heat transfer problem and was
>using my 48SX.  I was using C degrees, my answers seemed to be

>	enter 1 degree C twice then add them, the answer
>	is: 275.15 degrees C

>	This is clearly wrong:  Either 275.15 K or 2 deg C

Think about it.  What does adding temperatures mean, anyway?

For example, how much is 35,6 degrees F + 35,6 degrees F?
a) 71.2 degrees F (because that's "logical")
b) 39.2 degrees F (because 39.2 is 2 degrees C, and 4 degrees C is 39.2 F)
c) 530.87 degrees F

It is clear that the answer must be c)
There is only ONE way to add temperatures: add the distances from the
absolute zero.  So the 48 was right, after all.
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