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Because the SI unit for temperature is the Kelvin, which has already been stated. It has also been mentioned that K and °C are the same but with different offsets. It has not been mentioned that °C is to K as Degrees Fahrenheit (°F) is to Rankine ( R). It would be similarly inappropriate to say “millidegrees Fahrenheit” or “kilofahrenheit”. I have no idea if mR or kR would be appropriate, though.
I would offer that there are two ways to look at SI (“metric”) prefixes, and these can be thought of similarly with the multipliers they represent: as a prefix to the unit, by definition; or as a suffix to the value. Let me illustrate with an example.
38,000 K could be expressed 38 kK, or “thirty-eight kiloKelvin”. It could also be spoken “thirty-eight thousand Kelvin” (or Kelvins, idfk). This isn’t normally important for the layperson, but suppose you have a temperature meter (and, literally, I do not mean “thermometer”) that has only 4 digits of resolution. 38.00 k (“38,00 k” for the Europeans?) would be how it reads out the value in question. This would be 38 kK, certainly, due to the position of the decimal.
So, because Degrees Celsius is not an SI unit, in the technical sense…
Lol. Nah, my brother woke me up in crisis to have a conversation in text instead of over the phone, so my wife left to sleep in her own bed in a huff, and I just started new meds …
[Edited because of weird auto-formatting. Edit 2 added more pedantry.]
Because the SI unit for temperature is the Kelvin, which has already been stated. It has also been mentioned that K and °C are the same but with different offsets. It has not been mentioned that °C is to K as Degrees Fahrenheit (°F) is to Rankine ( R). It would be similarly inappropriate to say “millidegrees Fahrenheit” or “kilofahrenheit”. I have no idea if mR or kR would be appropriate, though.
I would offer that there are two ways to look at SI (“metric”) prefixes, and these can be thought of similarly with the multipliers they represent: as a prefix to the unit, by definition; or as a suffix to the value. Let me illustrate with an example.
38,000 K could be expressed 38 kK, or “thirty-eight kiloKelvin”. It could also be spoken “thirty-eight thousand Kelvin” (or Kelvins, idfk). This isn’t normally important for the layperson, but suppose you have a temperature meter (and, literally, I do not mean “thermometer”) that has only 4 digits of resolution. 38.00 k (“38,00 k” for the Europeans?) would be how it reads out the value in question. This would be 38 kK, certainly, due to the position of the decimal.
So, because Degrees Celsius is not an SI unit, in the technical sense…
Yeah, I know. I’m being pedantic. It’s literally my job. Here’s a source: https://www.bipm.org/en/measurement-units/si-base-units
There’s no way someone would use something as logical as “Millifahrenheit”.
It’s be 143 Fahrenheit in a Blurgenfurl, 2 Blurgenfurl in a Whatjamagick and 19003 Whatjamagick in a Plenderboing.
Dude, did you run out of hot water while having this thought?
Lol. Nah, my brother woke me up in crisis to have a conversation in text instead of over the phone, so my wife left to sleep in her own bed in a huff, and I just started new meds …