From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:02:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:02:19 -0400 Received: from mail.efore.fi ([62.236.103.42]:7954 "EHLO maxwell.efore.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:02:09 -0400 Message-ID: <3B32280A.ADC08780@efore.fi> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:59:54 +0300 From: Lauri Tischler X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard J Moore CC: Jonathan Morton , Kai Henningsen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: temperature standard - global config option? In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Richard J Moore wrote: > > > 59.42886726469 ±2°C is obviously ludicrous, even if that's > > what my calculator gives me. I should instead write 59 ±2°C, since > > So, if I follow you argument then shouldn't you be writing 58 ±2°C or > should it be 60 ±2°C ? What it means is that whatever dingus measured the temperature, reported the temperature as 59C. Also it is known that the accuracy of said dingus is +-2C, so the real temperature can be anywhere between 57C and 61C. That assuming that the dingus is calibrated. -- lauri.tischler@iki.fi * Man created god as His image * * Man has horrid imagination *