> On 18/10/2023 15:15 CEST Freek de Kruijf <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Item #80 in this file reads:
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> Kelvin is the base unit of temperature in the International System of Units 
> (SI). It is also used as a measure of the color temperature of light 
> sources. True story: A physicist cooled himself to -273.15C. He was 0K.
> 
> 
> The temperature in the last sentence is bogus. "-273.15C" should be 
> "273.15 K". 0.0 K is the lowest possible temperature, so it cannot be 
> negative. 273.15 K is 0 degrees Celsius or 32 degrees Fahrenheit.

We can't change this because the joke will become a no-joke:

The physicist is OK -> 0K -> Zero K = -273.15 C

Yes, it's a nonsense joke because the physicist will be dead at 0K, so not OK. 
Physicist humour? 

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> fr.gr.
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> Freek de Kruijf
> vertaler/coördinator van KDE

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