Ah I didn't either SB - thanks for pointing that out.

And 123F is 50.5C...

1,6 = 1.6 = 9/5

Here is a nice freeware universal converter.

http://noeld.com/dlmisc.htm#unicnv

1.6 is not 9/5. 9/5=1.8

9/5 is used only when converting from C to F. When converting from F to C, you use the reciprocal 5/9.

C=5/9(F-32)
F=9/5(C+32)

Why is this concept so difficult for some of you to understand?

Yeh oops my bad, its not that I don't understand the concept, I do. I just didn't think before I posted that last one. I've known how to convert these temperatures for quite some time now.

For this confusion I apologise.

ive always thought it was the number doubled... then 1.8 is close enough! =P

Whoever taught you that?!?!

The guy who started using Fahrenheit (yeah his name was Fahrenheit) must have been insane. Fahrenheit makes no sense at all.

Kelvin is my choice. Now that was some good thinkin' on his part. Is it C-178=K? I have forgotten.

Kelvin is not quite like the other two because it is, for one thing, not measured in degrees, but Kelvin Units or simply K, actually measures the Kenetic energy per molecule. It is mostly used for calculations involving perfect gases, if I remember correctly, 0k means that a perfect gas has lost all its energy. I can't remember much more about it than that, only that
0K(or absolute zero)= -216.16C or -459.69F

Actually storm this time you are wrong. 0K is -273.15°C

0K is traditionally defined as the temperature where all molecular movement stops, but really means where molecular energy is minimum. For more information on Kelvin check out this link: http://www.maxwellian.demon.co.uk/ar...negkelvin.html

Well, I looked into a book here to find it and apparently it was wrong. Looking in another source, it says that it is -273.16C
The -459.69F however is correct, I double checked it outside of my original reference just now to be sure.

ok so is the thread going to be changed to " OMG! My math is uber~messed up." now?

lol@iss.

One thing that I did find interesting from this thread as while I was searchign for links to explain Kelvin I came across the idea that there may be temps colder than 0K, temps is even the wrong word, you really have to understand the definations of things but apparently it may be possible or is possible to have a "colder" than 0K. I dont' know its probably above my head, but I find stuff like that interesting.

Mine was @ 25o yesterday... and for an Intel Quad core Extreme... pretty good?

I'm pretty sure that zero kelvin is absolute zero. no heat no light no energy and darn near impossible to obtain.