[Info-vax] Where is EISNER:: and who funds it?

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On Tuesday, December 28, 2021 at 7:33:25 PM UTC-5, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 12/28/2021 7:21 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote: 
> > Den 2021-12-28 kl. 22:38, skrev alanfe... at gmail.com: 
> >> On Tuesday, December 28, 2021 at 3:41:41 PM UTC-5, Phillip Helbig (undress to 
> >> reply) wrote: 
> >>> In article <j2tqdp... at mid.individual.net>, Roy Omond <r... at omond.net> 
> >>> writes: 
> >>> 
> >>>> On 26/12/2021 18:36, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote: 
> >>>> 
> >>>>> ... 20 F is 68 C. 30 F is 86. Then just add or subtract 18 per 10 for 
> >>>> anything else. Good enough. 
> >>>> 
> >>>> See, you even got that wrong: "20 F is 68 C. 30 F is 86." 
> >>> 
> >>> Correct is "20 C is 68 F. 30 C is 86 F". 
> >> 
> >> Yes. Sometimes a get dyslexic, and the hour was late. 
> >> 
> >> Maybe easier to add or 
> >>> subtract 9 for 5. For me, a difference of 5 C is easily noticeable. 
> >>> 
> >>> At that temperature is C the same as F? -40. 
> >> 
> >> -40 deg. F is the same as -40 kelvin. (or kelvins? I still don't have that 
> >> straight.) 
> > 
> > To points. 
> > 
> > If the temperature that is commonly known as the "absolute zero" is defined 
> > to be 0 K, please explain how you will get to -40 K.
> Negative heat ? 

Yeah, I screwed up again. Sorry. Oops. 

Actually, negative temperatures _do_ exist -- for systems of spins! I am not making this up. Not sure if anyone ever reached -40 kelvins though!

> 
> :-)
> > Then, I saw in a previous post that you asked about kelvin vs. kelvins. 
> > I might be that you are confused by the ending s in celcius. That ending 
> > s is neither a plurar or a genitive, the (Swedish b.t.w) scientest simply 
> > had the last name

Nope. I think I've seen kelvins, and I checked out the NIST site and couldn't find a clarification. Has nothing to do with Celsius.

 Celcius. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Celsius. 
> > William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (or "Lord Kelvin") was simply named like 
> > that, and a kelvin is never written with en ending s. 
> >
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Alan