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Old 04-17-2010, 06:39 PM
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I'm annoyed that the spell checkers on Firefox/and my computer don't give the option for Canadian english such as colour as opposed to color.
Oh I hear you - drives me absolutely nuts. I'm British, so my spelling is more like the Canadian spelling. I apparently still say "tomato" wrong though

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Funny thing is we use "gallons" and "inches" still commonly in the aquarium world.
Once you strip away the political stuff, people will generally use the most convenient unit for the task - feet, inches and gallons naturally fit for the scale of the average aquarium so measurements in feet and inches make more sense than in say, millimetres or a decimal value in metres.

In temperature there's not such a difference, so you see Celcsius and Fahrenheit being used depending on what people are more used to.

When confusion arises, I find Google is very handy for converting units, you just type in what you have and what unit you want it in.

e.g. "25C in kelvin" or "25C in F"
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Old 04-17-2010, 08:50 PM
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Converting degrees C to Kelvins is easy, just add 273 to the value! (Or 273.149 if you really need to be accurate! Haha).

Degrees F is actually slightly more accurate per degree increase than celcius. For every degree change in F, it is only 5/9 of a degree change in celcius. Although the C scale is more chemically coordinated and makes more sense, the F scale is slightly more accurate by the degree (assuming the thermometer determining each change in degrees is accurate). Im not advocating the use of F, but I dont think its terrible. I use both anyways, but for the majority of calculation purposes I use C.
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In temperature there's not such a difference, so you see Celcsius and Fahrenheit being used depending on what people are more used to.

What I find interesting is that most, if not all, of us (Canadians) use Celsius for measuring air temperature (all the Canadian weather forecasts/conditions use Celsius) but many Canadian aquarists find it easier or preferable to use F for measuring water temperature.
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Old 12-30-2010, 01:31 AM
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What I find interesting is that most, if not all, of us (Canadians) use Celsius for measuring air temperature (all the Canadian weather forecasts/conditions use Celsius) but many Canadian aquarists find it easier or preferable to use F for measuring water temperature.

Yes Sam that is so true all I know that 78-79 is good
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Im a mechanic and the thing that absolutly fricken kills me is "ever since...".No your tire didnt shread from that oil change , No your car made that squeak before i rotated the tires NOW CRAWL IN A HOLE AND DIE IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT ,IM A FRICKEN TRAINED PROFESIONAL ISINT THAT WHY YOU COME TO ME?
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I live by the Fahrenheit, inches and feet. My mind can't handle metric unless I'm talking long distance then I use km lol.

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