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From: kaufman@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman)
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Subject: Re: Units Problems...
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Date: 25 Sep 90 22:57:15 GMT
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In article <9682@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> jn190068@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU (Jay Lewis Nestle) writes:
>	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
>	would be great, but it seems that the 48 is forgetting
>	to convert back to deg C but is informing the user 
>	that it has.  Bug!!!

This has been discussed before.  Here is the problem:  1_c is not one degree
of c.  It is instead 1 on the c scale which goes from -274 up.  All of the
additions on the 48 use absolute zero as a base.  what is needed is the units
"degrees of c" to go along with "c degrees"  barring this, just remember to
convert to K before you do any additions.

This is annoying, but it is not a bug.

Michael

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