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Re:Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out by rjsw on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @04:07PM (#5788748)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system
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Re:Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out by ars on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @04:11PM (#5788771)
He means, why not just say "minus 10 celsius". Or in print -10c
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Re:Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out by rjsw on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @04:19PM (#5788803)
The SI unit is "degree Celsius", the original statement looks perfectly good English to me.
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Re:Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out by teeboy on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @04:26PM (#5788849)
Looks fine to me. We use it the same way in India.

And both celsius and Kelvin are SI units.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system#Conversion_and_ca...

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Re:Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out by heidar on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @04:25PM (#5788843)
The SI unit for temperature is kelvin.
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Re:Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out by coherentpony on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @07:31PM (#5789955)
Kelvin and Celsius are the same, modulo a shift.
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