Saturday, June 21, 2008

Celsius to Fahrenheit? Fahrenheit to Celsius? Ummm, what was the middle one again?

The thermostat in my hotel room is in celcius. I am not sure how it works, how to figure out what is a comfortable temperature.

I have been trying to figure out the conversions back and forth.
9/5 + 32 degrees. Is that right?
5/9 - 156 degrees + 42 Nanoseconds?
(Square root of pi * The GNP of Myanmar) / Average height of a giraffe?
I am just not sure.

As near as I can tell from my experiments, here is the standard:

= 21.0000000000000000005 Celsius / Comforatble
< 21.0000000000000000004 Celsius / Freezing
> 21.0000000000000000006 Celsius / Boiling.

Yes. That seems about right. That seems about the level of accuracy that it seems I must achieve on the thermostat to maintain a livable atmosphere.

2 Comments:

At June 29, 2008 10:47 AM , Blogger Adam R said...

Celsius was actually the fourth pagan emperor of Rome right after caligula.

 
At November 11, 2008 7:54 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dude, you are still SO FUNNY. And you look Italian!! (Love the scarf and round glasses particularly.) This is my attempt to contact you this decade - prompted by your awesome photos. I was in Italy just after I finished chemo, and have wanted to return ever since. I am so jealous.
tankgurl2@yahoo.com

 

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