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Re:Catastrophic Cancellation (2020) by jcheng on Friday March 19, 2021 @03:16PM (#26517248)
This is talking about the error in the difference between two values with the same units though. For temperature, it wouldn’t matter if you’re using C, K, or F for your starting values, the % error of the difference would be the same (I think).
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Re:Catastrophic Cancellation (2020) by eru on Saturday March 20, 2021 @09:40AM (#26523172)
Yes.

What would make a difference is to change to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic_beta

(Essentially the same difference as miles per gallons vs litres per 100 km.)

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