Langehund@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 9 months agoDespite being metric, Celsius is barely used with a prefix when describing temps high enough to warrant itmessage-squaremessage-square66fedilinkarrow-up1140arrow-down116
arrow-up1124arrow-down1message-squareDespite being metric, Celsius is barely used with a prefix when describing temps high enough to warrant itLangehund@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square66fedilink
minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down2·9 months agoCelsius is the SI unit of temperature. Kelvin is the SI unit of thermodynamic temperature. They’re both defined in SI.
minus-squareADTJ@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down15·9 months agoYou can say anything with confidence and people will believe it
minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up30·9 months agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units Kelvin is the base unit. Celsius is a derived unit, just like Watt or Newton. But they’re all SI.
minus-squareADTJ@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoI was agreeing with you, I was referring to OP saying it isn’t SI. But I think the downvotes are showing that wasn’t clear enough.
Celsius is the SI unit of temperature. Kelvin is the SI unit of thermodynamic temperature. They’re both defined in SI.
You can say anything with confidence and people will believe it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units
Kelvin is the base unit. Celsius is a derived unit, just like Watt or Newton. But they’re all SI.
I was agreeing with you, I was referring to OP saying it isn’t SI. But I think the downvotes are showing that wasn’t clear enough.
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