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  • From: Gary Woods <garygarlic@earthlink.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] celcius vs fahrenheit
  • Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 09:38:11 -0400

On Mon, 23 May 2005 21:26:07 -0700, you wrote:

>My ruler with the Celcius and Fahrenheit scale doesn't go below -22°F/-31°C
>so I
>had to guess.

Actually, then cross at -40.

c/(f-32)=5/9

If f=40
c/(-40-32)=5/9
c=(5/9)(-72)
c=-40

And to think I've been wasting brain cells on that all these years...



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