Thermometers: What's the Problem with Accuracy? Featured

Per Art Todesco:

That thing is starting to call out to me.

Do you just close the refrigerator door on the wire?

Or did the refrigerator need a hole drilled in it for the wire?

It is really more like 73 and you would notice the 3 degrees if you jumped in.

You're not wrong about water. However, I can't remember the last time I immersed myself in anything but water heated to 101 F. I'm much more interested in the air temperature.

Cindy Hamilton

I won't tell you my IQ, but it does disprove that rule.

I once found a book by a Russian author who claimed we should all be using base 3 (closest whole number to e). I never understood that, but I do like base 16, preferably indicated by a leading '$', like $FFD2 (print character subroutine for Commodore 64).

Dunno, is that C or F ? (trick question)

Don't they seperate dummies from bright kids over there like we do?

Scotland isn't a country.

In the US they do not seperate. They teach to the lowest IQs. The only seperation is for the sports programs. The colleges have special dorms and food for them.

Some high schools do have seperate courses for general business and such and another for college bound students, but there is no seperation for the low to the high IQ in those classes. Makes it look good for a high school when they can say the students average a B . That is because it is much easier to score high in general math than algebra.

I am a hex guy. We would say x'01D3' for that binary string. Cindy's notation looks like octal to me. Binary is always going to be binary tho. BCD anyone? ;-) That is 6 bit code plus a parity bit hence 7 track tape drives.

They are not allowed. The racial make up of the classes would bring claims of racial discrimination. In fact one of the counties outside got sued for it. They tried to separate out the students that needed extra help and throw more money at them. The NAACP said they were stigmatizing black kids.

Why you think I used the particular specific number???

Altho we actually did have a field service trip to Sask Power one year when it was nearly that cold; why any utility would schedule an outage mid-winter always escaped me...but this was annual event. Glad am not doing that any longer!

You can't disprove it with one person. That's like saying because you have blonde hair that Americans aren't brunettes.

You really needed Trump.

Don't you find the clever students are held back by the f*****ts in the class? You'll never educate anyone if you mix all abilities together.

I get the feeling some people in this group are quite old.

They prolly have thermometers with binary/hex/octal/scientific notation displays too.