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From: jal@oliveb.UUCP (Tony Landells)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: metric system
Message-ID: <2685@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 06:03:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: oliveb.2685
Posted: Fri Aug  7 06:03:09 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Aug-87 01:15:20 EDT
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Summary: it depends

In article <4808@utah-cs.UUCP>, bage@utah-cs.UUCP (Goran Bage) writes:
> In article <238@etn-rad.UUCP> jru@etn-rad.UUCP (0000-John Unekis) writes:
> >   In the metric system, we use degrees centigrade. The centigrade scale
> I think the metric temperature degrees are named Celsius, not centigrades,

It depends where you are - in Australia they use Celsius, in Italy it's
centigrade, but I'm not sure of the exact extent of use of either name.
They both represent exactly the same scale, and they both use a C to indicate
use of that scale, so it doesn't really matter much :-)
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