On 2014-01-30 08:45, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote:
Le jeudi 30 janvier 2014 04:27:54 UTC+1, Chris Angelico a écrit :
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:40 PM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>> How cruel... I suspect the smack at 0degC is much more painful
>> than one
>> at room temperature <G>
>>
> It's the 21st century; you should be making use of Unicode: 0°C.
I started to read that and thought you were going to advocate the use of 0°K...
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The temperature unit is the "Kelvin", not the "Degree Kelvin".
One writes: 0 K, 275.15 K
Not that long ago I saw a science fiction film in which one of the
"scientists" said "degrees Kelvin". The rest of the "science" was
somewhat dubious too...
It can also be the "Degree Celsius", not the "Celsius".
One writes: -273.15 °C, 0 °C
import unicodedata as ud
for c in '\u2109\u212a\u2103\u00b0':
... print(ud.name(c))
...
DEGREE FAHRENHEIT
KELVIN SIGN
DEGREE CELSIUS
DEGREE SIGN
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