It's not mysterious that they meet somewhere. These are linear functions so they can't help but meet at exactly one point (or zero if they were parallel)
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If they were parallel they wouldn't meet. See °C and K
I meant "meet at zero points" so they don't meet. Maybe my wording wasn't perfectly clear
Ah right, for some reason I couldn't read it properly. My bad
even parallel lines will meet at a point if you’re working in projective space
Or °F and °R. Not that anyone really uses R.
They could have met below absolute zero!
Is 0! 1?
Yup
Now we have to determine what the absolute one is. The number one temperature? Maybe "room temperature"?
What do you mean absolute? Is 1? the absolute value of 1. I thought |1| would be.
Yes but which unit? "absolute zero point" doesn't need a unit since zero is zero (and degree isn't a unit in this sense).
But what is |1|? 1K? The highest possible temperature maybe as in "on a scale from 0 to 1"
I once applied for a job at a plasma donation center. They keep their sample freezers at -40°. During the interview process the hiring manager was going over basic info for the job and when they went over the freezer they said "And we keep the freezer at -40°C. I don't know what it is in F though." I then explained that they're the same at -40° and that's why their job posting doesn't list the unit. They then acted like I was incredibly stupid and told me that "no, there's a formula to figure it out. I don't remember the formula but theyre definitely not the same" I didn't feel the need to argue the point further so I just dropped it and moved on.
I never got a call back from them. I'm 90% sure that's why I didn't get the job since Before that point they were telling me how they thought I'd be great manager material.
I still get mad every time I think about it. Jokes on them though. I since learned they were a terrible employer. I got a way better job than that place like a week later.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day
Yeah but two non-parallel linear functions only intersect once.
... Which is less often than a clock.
Unless it's a 24 hour clock!
Farenheit is better because 69 is a nice temperature
Can someone explain the joke?
-40°C = -40°F
They intersect at that point for mysterious nature reasons
Linear scale reasons.
They measure the same thing. But they scale it differently, so they must meet somewhere. One, for some crazy reason, has decided the freezing and boiling point of water aught to be exactly 100 units apart. Where the other, sensibly, uses a really cold day in Danzig Germany because the AIR feels cold at that temperature, and what the natural resting point of the human body temperature is, separated by 96 units so as to make the scale easier to make in a lab.
I think there's a /s missing...
I think you've just insulted a bunch of poles.
The fact that danzig is in the nation state of Poland today doesn't mean there were clear cut boarders back then. Kafka lived in Prague, don't tell me he was Czech
Still, you wouldn't say that Kafka was born in the Austrian city of Prague, even though in 1883 Prague belonged to the Austrian part (Cisleithania) of Austria-Hungary.
I reread the comment you replied to and you are right. I thought it was "the German guy from Danzig" which would be fine but "Danzig, Germany" isn't
Aaah, thanks!
Is this nature's fault, though? Isn't it us humans measring stuff? 😸
Both water and humans agree, -40° is very cold