Using the metric version you can get zero with no chirps. The method doesn't work at all for the current temperature though, you can't get -1°C any way
My guess would be better approximation as you avoid a "fluke", as 8 second is a very short time where nothing could easily happen even with crickets being present
I think the brine probably froze at 0° F, which ended up correlating to 32° F for regular water. And the body temperature at 100° F ended up correlating to 212° F for water to boil. That's the way I understand it anyway.
Fahrenheit temperature scale, scale based on 32° for the freezing point of water and 212° for the boiling point of water, the interval between the two being divided into 180 equal parts. The 18th-century physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit originally took as the zero of his scale the temperature of an equal ice-salt mixture and selected the values of 30° and 90° for the freezing point of water and normal body temperature, respectively; these later were revised to 32° and 96°, but the final scale required an adjustment to 98.6° for the latter value.
Far fewer people know that 0° and 100° in Fahrenheit also correspond to specific real-world values. 0°F corresponds to a temperature where a brine is made of equal parts ice, water, and ammonium chloride. Such a brine, interestingly, is a frigorific mixture, meaning that it stabilizes to a specific temperature regardless of the temperature that each component started at. Thus, it makes for a really nice laboratory-stable definition of a temperature. Similarly, 100°F was initially set at "blood heat" temperature, or the human body temperature. While not super precise, it was a fairly stable value. As good as anything in the early 1700s.
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sevon@lemmy.kde.social · 78 pts · 1y
Americans and their units
Pazuzu@midwest.social · 30 pts · 1y
metric is great until you need to do anything practical with it like converting cricket chirps to degrees ^/s^
Botzo@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1y
!anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works · 58 pts · 1y
Assuming one spherical cricket in a vacuum
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 1y
You can't hear a cricket chirp in a vacuum.
The motor is too loud.
C8r9VwDUTeY3ZufQRYvq@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
Ignoring air resistance?
essell@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 1y
Wow.
It's zero degrees here in June.
Weird.
Zron@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y
How did you hear negative chirps?
Can I learn this power?
Revan343@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 1y
Try salvia
psud@aussie.zone · -2 pts · 1y
Using the metric version you can get zero with no chirps. The method doesn't work at all for the current temperature though, you can't get -1°C any way
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 1y
Nope,, 0 / 3 = 0 -> 0 + 4 = 4°C
Division/Multiplication always goes before Addition/Subtraction.
Zron@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
That’s but how math works, doesn’t matter if you use the American or metric formula
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl · 2 pts · 1y
Hello fellow southernhemispherian, how does it feel bring safe from nuclear winter?
wewbull@feddit.uk · 36 pts · 1y
...or count the chirps in 8 seconds and add 4.
Why am I taking 25seconds and dividing by 3? Accuracy?
TheMetaleek@sh.itjust.works · 38 pts · 1y
My guess would be better approximation as you avoid a "fluke", as 8 second is a very short time where nothing could easily happen even with crickets being present
yimby@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 1y
I'm just bothered they chose divide by 3, instead of 16 seconds divide by 2 which is wayyy easier
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y
Glad to know it's America and crickets that find fahrenheit more convenient for temperature.
Today@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
I think that's how we got fahrenheit.
kurwa@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Actually it was originally based on the freezing temperature of a brine and human body temperature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit
appelkooskonfyt@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y
No I'm pretty sure it was crickets.
HollowNaught@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Ah, so 32° is when an unknown concentration of human brine freezes, and 98.6° is the average human temperature
What am I even reading any more
Macallan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I think the brine probably froze at 0° F, which ended up correlating to 32° F for regular water. And the body temperature at 100° F ended up correlating to 212° F for water to boil. That's the way I understand it anyway.
HollowNaught@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
echodot@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 1y
What the hell was the brine that it required it to be 32° below the freezing point of water? Even salt water would have frozen by that point.
Macallan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Source from a quick Google search: https://gregable.com/2014/06/temperature-scales.html
psud@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1y
Really it was "find something that is different to the earlier scales"
kurwa@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
It was actually based on an existing scale called the Rømer scale
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 18 pts · 1y
How do you count just one cricket's chirps? There are usually tons of them.
echodot@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 1y
Everyone counts their own crickets and then you add the results together.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y
Count faster.
Widdershins@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
I feel like parentheses don't belong in explaining math if they aren't used appropriately.
LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
MyFriendGodzilla@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
But what species is the cricket?
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I was expecting some kind of Duckworth-Lewis formula.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 1y
Test or One-Day?