On: Show HN: Degrees What?

[Vecr]

"Degrees Kelvin". Yeah, I've actually heard that.

[pwdisswordfishc → Vecr]

It's an obsolete name, but was official at one point.

[jgilias → pwdisswordfishc]

What do you mean? It’s a different scale that has the same ‘unit length’ as Celsius, but it’s not the same. Also, it’s very much ‘current’ in the physics context.

[dghf → jgilias]

I'm assuming they mean the "degrees" part. These days, the standard is to say (for example) 200 kelvin, not 200 degrees Kelvin.

[arrowsmith → jgilias]

They meant that the name "degree Kelvin" is obsolete (since 1967 according to Wikipedia), not that the unit of measurement itself is obsolete.

[mbork_pl → pwdisswordfishc]

"It's an old code, but it checks out." :-P

[laingc → Vecr]

To be fair, that is actually common in physics. Elsewhere obviously not so much.

[mdturnerphys → laingc]

I think the point was that it's just "Kelvin" not "degrees Kelvin"

[laingc → mdturnerphys]

I didn’t pick that up, but I suppose that’s fair. I’ve heard both, as I have with Celsius.

[defrost → laingc]

Celsius = Kelvin + offset in any case, they're not so different .. not like that other scale used in very few countries.