xkcd

8710 readers

289 users here now

A community for a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

koraro@lemmy.world

524

xkcd #3001: Temperature Scales (xkcd.com)

submitted 1 day ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/xkcd@lemmy.world

59 comments fedilink hide all child comments

In my new scale, °X, 0 is Earths' record lowest surface temperature, 50 is the global average, and 100 is the record highest, with a linear scale between each point and adjustment every year as needed.

https://explainxkcd.com/3001/

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 hours ago

Dividing by zero

still makes more sense to me than a lower-number-means-warmer-temperature scale.

permalink
fedilink
source
parent