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[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

you're just now telling me that's not what you were talking about?

No? I said as much in my very first comment.

But yes, the sizes of the units are the same.

And technically, that's only the case as of 2019, when Celsius was decoupled from the properties of water. Before that, kelvin was more precise, since it did not depend on controlling for pressure. Before 2019, there were precision discrepancies between K and °C.

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