If there are 0 degrees C today and tomorrow will be twice as cold, what temperature will there be tomorrow?
Philosophical (ok, it took me about 5 mins to get that right :D), really, question, asked by a friend on Yahoo! Answers and other means of mass communication :)
Some really good (first impression) answers he has got there, but he wants a NUMBER! Someone calculated -136.5C, but that sounds much colder than we would expect twice colder than 0 to be. I have a very good (thank god) excuse to pass this question to the masses and not give a logical personal answer right now, because I had an exam yesterday, one tomorrow, one on tuesday and one on next friday, if u know what I mean. I hope we get a logical and acceptable answer until I'm finished with the exams :D
Good luck with using your brain arsenal!
[credits to victor]
May 30, 2008
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5 comments:
Twice as cold could mean -16.7258383 C. You're a brunette, so I'll let you figure it yourself!
@ tudor:
what's so special about -33.45 C?
please explain :)
problem is a few guys think about this and still no answer.. but anyway...
unless someone else enbrightens us, i will have to wait for next friday afternoon to really think about the -16.blabla :))
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/askjack/twice-as-cold-as-zero.htm
http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/58415.html
It doesn't make sense to say that something is twice as hot as another thing.You can find this definition on wikipedia ( or look it up in a physics book): In physics, heat, symbolized by Q, is energy transferred from one body or system to another due to a difference in temperature.
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