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Notices tagged with zeroisnotminimum

  1. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Saturday, 18-Sep-2021 21:23:36 EDT Bob Jonkman Bob Jonkman
    in reply to
    • Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
    Reminds me of a riddle I heard in high school (around the time Canada switched to metric): If it's 0 Celsius here, and twice as cold in Ottawa, what's the temperature there?

    Conflating both the #ZeroIsNotMinimum problem and a negatively worded question about positive values.

    Think of "If it's 273 Kelvin here, and twice as cold in Ottawa"... would that be 546 Kelvin in Ottawa, or 136.5 Kelvin?
    In conversation Saturday, 18-Sep-2021 21:23:36 EDT from web permalink
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