5131eds@hound.UUCP (E.SHIPLEY) (12/29/83)
Regardless of whether you use Centigrade or Fahrenheit to measure it, the temperature is the same. Only the numbers used to describe the temperature are different! At -40 , nevertheless, the Fahrenheit scale and the Centigrade scale give the same number. Ed Shipley
halle1@houxz.UUCP (J.HALLE) (12/29/83)
Do farenheit and centegrade have a common point? Well, yes and no. -40 F = -40 C, but C=Celcius now, not centigrade, so the latter does not exist! ( :-) ) Actually, any two systems where the temperature intervals are different will intersect. (It might not be at a real attainable point, however, for bizzare scales.)
msimpson@bbncca.ARPA (Mike Simpson) (12/30/83)
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>>Do Fahrenheit and Centigrade have an equivalent temperature?
Yes, forty degrees below zero. The algebra is simple--
Let X be the Fahrenheit temperature, and let Y be the Celsius
temperature. Then
(9/5)Y+32 = X
(9)Y + 160 = (5)X
160 = (-4)X
-40 = X
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617-497-2819 (Ma Bell)dje@pyuxbb.UUCP (D J Ellis) (01/04/84)
Regarding equivalence between degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius: F = 9/5 * C + 32 = C is a linear equation with root C = -40.