Temperature scales

Since the current temperatures are way too hot, I'm presenting a few temperature-scale-related Wikipedia links today.

I guess almosteveryone who learned programming also wrote a program to convert temperatures from one scale to another, e.g. Celsius to Fahrenheit and the other way round. This list provides an overview over other scales, some of which are quite interesting, like the Newton scale, which defines 0° to be the temperature where water starts freezing and 30° where water starts boiling, or Rankine, which is to Fahrenheit what Kelvin is to Celsius. But in my opinion, the most interesting scale is Delisle, which goes the other way round: the 0 Kelvin are 559.725 °Delisle, while 100 °C are 0 °Delisle, and the surface temperature of the sun (about 5526 °C) is -8140 °Delisle.

But besides the temperature scales, let's hope that temperature goes a bit down, almost everybody around me is suffering from the hot and the relatively high humidity makes sustaining the heat even harder.