Theos-Talk Archives (January 1997 Message tl00451)

Tom,

[Bart]
>take the following: -500 = -1000. Is that correct? If you are talking about
>temperature in the Farhenheit scale, then yes, it is. 

[Tom]
That a temperature of -500 might be equivalent to a temperature of -1000
does not make -500 equivalent to -1000.

Just to add to the picture, the physical absolute zero is -459.7 degrees
Farhenheit.

I would ask Bart; what mathematical operation was used to obtain the -500
and -1000 and to say they are the same temperature?

Murray