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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 23:31:54 UTC Robert McNees

   Anders Celsius, who conceived a centigrade temperature scale where water froze at 100° and boiled at 0°, passed away #OTD, April 25, in 1744.

   That's 32 + 25*9/5 = 77... July 10 in Fahrenheit.

   (His colleague Carl Linnaeus flipped the scale a few years later, so that 0° was freezing and 100° was boiling.)

   • Joshua H. Pollack (desafinado@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 23:41:34 UTC Joshua H. Pollack

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     @mcnees so it’s more properly the Suislec scale, then

   • Datenegassie ❌ (datenegassie@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Apr-2023 03:08:46 UTC Datenegassie ❌

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     @mcnees Wait, Carl Linnaeus? The taxonomy guy? TIL