XPost: rec.arts.drwho   
   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <10imvm5$2v4ag$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Your Name   wrote:   
   >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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   Centigrade and Celsius is interchangeable.   
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