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China’s ‘artificial sun’ sets nuclear fusion record, runs 1,006 seconds at 180 million°F
(charmingscience.com)
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I feel like in the millions of degrees it is fine to use america numbers. Seeing it in C isn't gonna give anyone a more accurate understanding.
Or we could use what everyone else uses
At 160 million we may as well just be using kelivn.
Have you considered that it's never okay to use America anything including numbers?
Fahrenheit does have a wider range of whole numbers to express the temperatures in our daily climate. Unfortunately the digital thermostats I had for years, even one in Shanghai, would step in 0.5 deg increments regardless of it being in F or C. I assume it was using K internally throughout the system, so keeping it in F meant more granularity (68, 68.5, 69 being more specific temps than 20, 20.5, 21 could dial in). And it was noticeable enough to where I'd keep it in F (except one time when I was sick and wanted in between the two possible F setpoints).
At that scale they're equal
lol yeah it's very hot
You can divide by two and be roughly correct (÷1.8 even moreso). The offset is negligible.
Dividing 160million by 1.8 is not gonna help me understand things any better I fear.