 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Science - 1896 - 906 pages
...points does not hold ; any convenient number of degrees would <lo. The Centigrade degree (t°'8 F. ) is just twice too large for ordinary studies. The...had to study figures, half of which have minus signs l^efore them, knows the amount of labour involved. To average a column of thirty figures, half of which... | |
 | William Jay Youmans - Science - 1896 - 898 pages
...boiling points does not hold; any convenient number of degrees would do. The Centigrade degree (1°'8 F.) is just twice too large for ordinary studies. The...figures half of which are minus takes nearly double time that figures all on one side would take, and the liability to error is more than twice as great.... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Sociology - 1914 - 286 pages
...boiling points does not hold ; any convenient number of degrees would do. The Centigrade degree (l°.8f.) is just twice too large for ordinary studies. The...which have minus signs before them knows the amount of labour involved. To average a column of 30 figures half of which are minus takes nearly double the... | |
 | Edwyn Anthony - Metric system - 1905 - 140 pages
...points does not hold ; any convenient number of degrees would do. The Centigrade degree (1°.8 F.) is just twice too large for ordinary studies. The...the Centigrade scale below freezing. Any one who has to study figures half of which have minus signs before them knows the amount of labour involved. To... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy - 1910 - 282 pages
...boiling points does not hold ; any convenient number of degrees would do. The Centigrade degree (l°.8f.) is just twice too large for ordinary studies. The...which have minus signs before them knows the amount of labour involved. To average a column of 30 figures half of which are minus takes nearly double the... | |
 | Pharmacy - 1896 - 626 pages
...boiling points does not hold; any convenient number of degrees would do. The centigrade degree (1.8° F.) is just twice too large for ordinary studies. The...signs before them knows the amount of labor involved. ... If any one ever gets a "bee in his bonnet" on this subject and desires to make the change on general... | |
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F.) is just twice too large for ordinary studies. The worst difficulty, however, is in the use of the Centigrade scale below freezing. Any one who has had to study figures half of which have minus signs before them knows the amount of labor involved. 