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Re:Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size by PostOnce on Monday September 05, 2022 @06:35AM (#32722735)
Fahrenheit (the man) was himself a physicist... he invented the mercury thermometer. That's pretty scientific.

So calling it "Frankenstein and Science" is a little silly, especially when we have an absolute scientific scale (Kelvin).

Actually, nobody complains that we use both Celsius and Kelvin, so what problem is there with a third scale for people, if the former two are for industry and science respectively?

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Re:Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size by xxs on Monday September 05, 2022 @07:33AM (#32723161)
>So calling it "Frankenstein and Science" is a little silly, especially when we have an absolute scientific scale (Kelvin).

That was unnecessary, an obvious joke about both, and how people feel about them, etc. C and K scale the same way, so C is just an offset K (or vise versa). Both C and F are arbitrary, of course - zero (as developer) being the phase change of the water does make more sense to me; again arbitrary.

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