All scales run from 0° to 360°, but what does this mean? No scale should ever start from 0°, or end at 360°. Surely all scales, of whatever type, should run from -101010° to 101010°.
Ryan, can you either clarify what your question is, or give more details of what you are referring to.
Is this Ryan i nfact me? See, I asked a question relating to "Fahrenheit = 360" recently. However, xcole loves to quote people but completely change what they have said.
anyway xcole, you listed the celsius, centigrade, Reaumer and Fahrenheit system; for each of them you gave numbers by the side that showed us the freezing and boiling points (100-0, 0-100, 0-80), yet when you got to Fahrenheit you said "0-360". You know as well as I that there are 180 degress between boiling and freezing, and that 212 is boiling.
So... what are you talking about?
martin
Re: All scales start @ Ground Zero
March 11 2004, 9:58 AM
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All scales run from 0° to 360°
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This statement is correct except that the word "to" should be replaced by "up to but not including". Since this thread was originally started by XCOLE, I, like him, will also place a reference:
See
http://www1.bipm.org/en/publications/brochure/
For those who do not have the time to wade through the 70 odd pages of the SI brochure, the symbol ° is used to denote an angle and the above definition ensures that no angle can be multi-valued.