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Trudel · 01-08-2004, 12:49 PM

Celcius = Centigrade

Anders Celsius (1701–1744), a Swedish astronomer, invented the thermometer with a scale of 100 degrees from freezing to boiling of water, but English called it a centigrade thermometer until in 1948 an international convention decided to honor Celsius by giving it his name. Conventional notation for such temperatures remained unchanged: it is still 10°C or 22°C for centigrade or Celsius; both are Standard.

So yeah, were all talking in celsius. Pretty much everyone in Europe and everyone in Canada uses celsius.

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Trudel is Offline Senior Member Posts: 166 Join Date: Jan 2003	01-08-2004, 12:49 PM Celcius = Centigrade Anders Celsius (1701–1744), a Swedish astronomer, invented the thermometer with a scale of 100 degrees from freezing to boiling of water, but English called it a centigrade thermometer until in 1948 an international convention decided to honor Celsius by giving it his name. Conventional notation for such temperatures remained unchanged: it is still 10°C or 22°C for centigrade or Celsius; both are Standard. So yeah, were all talking in celsius. Pretty much everyone in Europe and everyone in Canada uses celsius.