It seems that in the extreme ranges of numbers (150+), the propensity for errors or confusion between the two scales gets riskier .
I was having an online discussion with someone in an electronics forum the other day, and we were talking about the ideal temperature for a soldering iron for a contact point using a particular type of solder and potentiometer.
He kept talking about setting the iron at 300 degrees. Now, my iron DOES have a setting up to 400 degrees, but in Celsius. He was talking in Farenheit, and had I not double checked with him, I would have fried my electronics to a crisp.
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It seems that in the extreme ranges of numbers (150+), the propensity for errors or confusion between the two scales gets riskier .
I was having an online discussion with someone in an electronics forum the other day, and we were talking about the ideal temperature for a soldering iron for a contact point using a particular type of solder and potentiometer.
He kept talking about setting the iron at 300 degrees. Now, my iron DOES have a setting up to 400 degrees, but in Celsius. He was talking in Farenheit, and had I not double checked with him, I would have fried my electronics to a crisp.