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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article ,   
   Steve Hayes   wrote:   
   >On Fri, 26 Dec 2025 11:13:40 -0800, Snidely    
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >>The True Melissa used thar keyboard to writen:   
   >>> Come to think of it, I haven't heard anyone speak of   
   >>> Centigrade in a while. I'm in the US, and people here say   
   >>> "Celsius" now, but I heard "Centigrade" fairly often in   
   >>> the 70s, maybe early 80s.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Melissa   
   >>   
   >>I'm not sure "Centigrade" was ever an official name for the scale (and   
   >>there are non-Celsius scales where the critical points for water are   
   >>separated by 100 degrees).   
   >>   
   >>Celsius is the name approved by international standards (and there's an   
   >>ISO Doc for that).  See also the "cgs" vs "MKS" conventions of recent   
   >>history.   
   >   
   >I think many of those names were approved and came into general use in   
   >the late 1960s and early 1970s, when many countries were officially   
   >adopting the metric system. Before that, Celsius was most often called   
   >Centigrade, and Hertz was kilocycles. Before that Amps, Vols and Watts   
   >were common, but not some of the other names for measurements.   
   >   
      
   Now what belongs to wich system?   
      
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