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.

If the temperature rises from minus 10 to minus 5, would you say it
had halved?

Neil Sunderland
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I have neither been there nor done that, but I got the t-shirt anyway.

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