• Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Also Rankine, being an absolute scale, theoretically shouldn’t be in ° anything, and it’s only some weird historical quirk that is the reason it usually is called degrees.

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      2 months ago

      I am not sure I follow that. The scale is always relative right? It’s just the zero that’s absolute. But that’s also the case with measuring angles where we do use the degree symbol.

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        2 months ago

        It’s just the zero that’s absolute

        Right, that’s what makes Rankine and Kelvin absolute scales, while Fahrenheit and Celsius are relative.