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/snip/ ... students and their teachers (as....
witnessed by comments on this thread) and for that mater apparently authors
of current texts (Serway, H&R, & Apostle, et al.) advertise (and apparently
the CRC Handbook) that Celsius is just another name for "Centigrade") It
will take years to overcome this error -- just as it is taking years
(centuries) to overcome other legends.
It is not he inaccuracy in the data that I abhor as much as the poor
conceptualization.
I don't look upon this issue as trivia -- it is conceptually wrong to/snip/
preach the traditional errors
Jim Green