"Thom Stewart" wrote
On top of a 600# Stm. Blr. Servicing Steam Pots on a Bailey Steam
meter.

Those were younger years though. Great way to handle a "Hang-over"

I think your confused, Tom. Sure it wasn't that moonshine still your Daddy had in the
back woods? :-)

Cheers,
Ellen

Katy,

Glad you responded. I didn't / wouldn't reply to a Sock puppet. You're
both right but it plain to see that you have never dealt with those kind
of temperature up real close in actual working condiitions. In reality
you have to do them in you head and often right now. 9/5 or 5/9+32
doesn't lend itself to rapid Calc.

If you take that 9/5 and convert it to 2 rather than 1and 4/5 then 51 is
a very quick conversion to a 100 or a 101+32.

A real sailor's way of converting radio weather reports internationally
to from C to F without putting a Mike down or leaving a Helm. 5 degrees
difference in 128 is a very small error I can live with and no
calculator or paper necessary.

It a trick sailor's and boiler room firemen have been using for years.

Try it. It is a good way to talk Temp with your Canadian friends,

And by the way, I can also do the formular conversion in my head but its
slower but not as slow as getting a calculator and setting up.

Thank you for giving me a chance to reply to "Nellen" about practical
sailor's solution. Neal never need to use things like that at Anchor.

"Ellen MacArthur" wrote in
message
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"katy" wrote
How to google equations?

I didn't have to google that one. I've got it
memorized. It's good to know it.
Most of the countries use centigrade. Fahrenheit is better
because it makes more
sense and it has more degrees between freezing and
boiling. So you just gotta
know the equation by heart so you can understand what
foreigners are talking about.


Who cares what scurry foreigners are talking about

"Thom Stewart" wrote in message
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Marty,

At a 133degrees what esle could it be but Dry


humid?



Scotty

"Charlie Morgan" wrote
Fahrenheit makes more sense? What could be more concise than a system that sets
water freezing at ZERO and Boiling at 100? Farenheit is about as obtuse and
inscrutable as it can get. More degrees between freezing and boiling? Holy CRAP,
you are an imbecile.

Sticks and stones......
You just don't have a leg to stand on here, Mr. Puff-and-Strut. Who said anything about *concise*
besides your own self? I said Fahrenheit makes more sense. And, it does. Water boils at 212 and it freezes at 32.
Subtract. You get 188 degrees. That's almost twice as many degrees as you get in Centigrade degrees.
That means it's more descriptive. Your measuring with a finer instrument. It's like having half sizes in
shoes. You get a better fit when you have half sizes. Duh!

Cheers,
Ellen

Thom Stewart wrote:
Katy,

Glad you responded. I didn't / wouldn't reply to a Sock puppet. You're
both right but it plain to see that you have never dealt with those kind
of temperature up real close in actual working condiitions. In reality
you have to do them in you head and often right now. 9/5 or 5/9+32
doesn't lend itself to rapid Calc.

I
Thom,. I know how to convert equations...and have also worked in bery
hit gumid conditions with no AC going...my retort to Neal was just that,
a retort...

Katy or anybodyin ASA,

Don't turn the Salker in. I believe that's what he wants me to do; Turn
in a sock-puppet. DON'T DO IT! Nellen will
probably be getting abuses, don't let him have his way

TIA
Ole Thom

OzOne wrote in message
...

Never heard of decimal places?

yes

Ever heard of Santa Claus?

Ho ho ho

"Charlie Morgan" wrote in message
...

By the way, being concise often helps you make sense.

CWM


"90% of the game is half mental." Yogi Berra

--
jlrogers±³©

"Charlie Morgan" wrote
By the way, being concise often helps you make sense.


Then you should try it because your not making much sense......
You give some silly umpteen decimal place temperature and then you say convert it
and the calculator will round it off. Duh. That should tell you something. It means
after a couple places to the left of the decimal those numbers don't really matter.
So, why bother? Now, if I decided to do it on paper I could carry it out to a bazillion
decimal places. But why? Ain't no way a person can tell the difference in even a
tenth of a degree. Why bother with a bazillionth?

Cheers,
Ellen


Cheers,
Ellen