Theos-Talk Archives (January 1997 Message tl00482)

Murray Stentiford wrote:
> 
> 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?

	Because both are undefined.

	Bart Lidofsky