• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    But it’s not.

    Celsius and Faernheit are interval scales, not rational scales. The absolute change from one number to the next is consistent, but since you can go into the negatives, 1 is not double 2.

    Kelvin and Rankine are rational because they use an absolute zero.