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Originally Posted by P-hack
below freezing is hardly nonsensical, nor is boiling, I will assume you are kidding (I want a temperature system designed to have a 100 degree spread between the freezing and boiling point of water...
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Why? That's always seemed nonsensical to me - again, for everyday use. Normal outdoor temperatures go from - oh, about -40 to 50 in centigrade - so large range of commonly-encountered temperatures need to be negative values, while at the upper end the 2-digit range goes well above what's encountered anywhere but cooking. Hardly convenient.
And on top of that, one end of the scale - boiling point - is variable, and just defined as 100 degrees by parochial folk who live near sea level. Hereabouts it boils around 95C.
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I'm sure glad phone manufacturers settled on USB
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I just wish they'd settle on one small USB connector. Every one of the half-dozen or so portable USB devices I have - phone, tablet, cameras, GPS - uses a slightly different shape.