X-Message-Number: 17046 Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 11:38:24 -0700 From: Olaf Henny <> Subject: Look Ma, No Fridge References: <> In Message #17041 David C. Johnson <> wrote in part: >Anyway, once I recognized we were talking a positive 23C, I was relieved >(because of all the deterioration noted), but I still was not immediately >sure what amount of thermal energy/temperature we were talking about. But I >sure did know the right way to figure it out fast! I retrieved my Radio >Shack digital thermometer from the refrigerator and monitored it for a minute >or two until it warmed to precisely 23C per its liquid crystal display and >then I flipped the switch on the back to the Fahrenheit scale to read 73.5F >on the display. Now it all makes sense! Room temperature! I sure David was trying to pull our legs with those complex mental acrobatics, through which he miraculously <g> arrived at the correct conversion results for 23^C and 196^C into ^F, but the formulas are really quite simple: ^F > ^C: (^F - 32) : 9 x 5 = ^C ^C > ^F: ^C : 5 x 9 + 32 = ^ F Easy to remember markers: 100^C = 212^F 16^C = ~ 61^F 0^C = 32^F 0^F = ~ -18^C -40^F = -40^C Best, Olaf Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17046