On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 20:29:33 +0100 (BST)
"Dave Liquorice" wrote:

On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 19:24:05 +0100, Metman2012 wrote:

Did you hear David Shukman on the news - temperatures have halved
(30 to 15)? And he's supposed to be a science correspondent.

I must be missing something 15 * 2 = 30... ergo 15 is half of 30.


So, on a cold winter's day, when the temperature struggles to 1C and
the previous day was 0C, you'd say it was infinitely warmer? Perhaps if
you had a more accurate thermometer that had shown it to be 0.1C one day
and 1.0C the next, then it would be merely ten times warmer?


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