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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-12-26 09:39:15 +0000, Daniel70 said:   
      
   > On 26/12/2025 7:33 am, The True Melissa wrote:   
   >> In article <10ijben$1rst9$1@dont-email.me>, daniel47   
   >> @nomail.afraid.org says...   
   >>> On 25/12/2025 11:31 pm, The Doctor wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Cheers from cool Canada, where is it 0 on both scales.   
   >>>>   
   >>> On which 'both scales', Binky??   
   >>   
   >> Celsius and Centigrade. :-D   
   >>   
   > Ah!! Of course, I had forgotten that, for some reason, there are two   
   > names for the one scale.   
   >   
   > Could that 'two names' thing be an "England v the rest of the World"   
   > thing?? i.e. the real name is 'Celsius' but England uses 'Centigrade'   
   > (or vice versa)??   
      
   They are just two different names for the same temperature measurement   
   system - "centigrade", although it was the original name, is now   
   considered incorrect.   
      
      "When Anders Celsius created his original scale in 1742 he   
       inexplicably chose 0° for the boiling point and 100° for the   
       freezing point. A little over one year later Frenchman Jean   
       Pierre Cristin proposed an inverted version of the scale   
       (freezing point 0°, boiling point 100°). He named it   
       Centigrade."   
      
      "Celsius and centigrade refer to the same temperature scale:   
       100 degrees between water's freezing (0°C) and boiling (100°C)   
       points, but Celsius is the official name adopted in 1948 to   
       honour its inventor, Anders Celsius, and avoid confusion with   
       other uses of "centigrade" (like angular measurement). So,   
       while people still use "centigrade," Celsius is the modern,   
       correct term, standardised by the General Conference on   
       Weights and Measures."   
      
      "Centigrade is the old fashioned name for Celsius as mentioned   
       above. The name Centigrade was derived from the Latin,   
       originally meaning a hundred degrees."   
      
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