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[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Only Kelvin is like that

False. Rankine is too.

I didn't find any others in a quick glance at the wiki, but it would be easy to imagine a scale like 0 at absolute zero, and 100 at the freezing point of water or something.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Never heard of Rankine, but it sounds like a Kelvin with a similar conversation to F (9/5, or 1.8, only inverse). Description suggestions as much, too. If I told students about it when talking about ratio scales, though, pretty sure it'd be a tad too much. Most haven't even heard of Kelvin!

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