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31 Mar
2005
31 Mar
'05
1:14 a.m.
David M. Cooke wrote:
Fernando Perez <Fernando.Perez@colorado.edu> writes:
Putting my physicist hat on, I'd strongly argue for simply saying that temperatures are temperatures, period. If you need to convert temperature _differences_ (gradients), you should explicitly say so. It's OK for a package to provide utility functions to do this conveniently, if it's a frequent need. But the concept of temperature should be unchanged:
T_celsius = T_kelvin - 274.15
Maybe you'd better check the fit of that physicist's hat ;-)
Sorry, it's 273.15, I didn't actually look it up, I just used the value given by the OP. Best, f