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Updates tagged with zeroisnotminimum on Jonkman Microblog!bobjonkman: 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?
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bobjonkman's status on Saturday, 18-Sep-2021 21:23:36 EDTReminds 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?<br /><br /> Conflating both the #<span class="tag"><a href="https://gs.jonkman.ca/tag/zeroisnotminimum" rel="tag">ZeroIsNotMinimum</a></span> problem and a negatively worded question about positive values. <br /><br /> 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?2021-09-18T21:23:36-04:00Bob JonkmanbobjonkmanBob Jonkman