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None of which applied in this context, apart from quick and dirty!
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You can graphite a horse to water......but a pencil must be lead.
But that's my original point. 30C is 90F by your method, which is a lot scarier than 86F (the experience gets disproportionately worse the closer you get to blood heat - and yes you can tell a degree either way, it's the difference between being just comfortable and being chilly enough to turn on the heating*).Not if your computer is not on and your smartphone isn't handy and you want an approximate quickand dirtyconversion.
But is such accuracy needed when all we are doing is then converting that figure into our recollection of how hot or cold that feels?
The discussion hasn't mentioned temperature perception yet.
Yep - have a spreadsheet to record costs per litre/gallon, MPG, average MPG per day/month/year, etc - sad eh !Does anyone here still calculate their fuel purchases in gallons?
Don't be silly. I just fill mine up and drive it 'till it needs filling up again. Strange how my car's computer gives me consumption in MPG though. I understand that. l/100km is stupid.Does anyone here still calculate their fuel purchases in gallons?
I limit at three sig figs, rounding the rest as I go. That's good enough for me, and only means three or four digits in the arithmetic - but like I said: use it or lose it.None of which addresses the point about tedious calculations when the height in metres isn't a really easy number.
What I'm interested in is miles per pound (or its reciprocal).Does anyone here still calculate their fuel purchases in gallons?
I suspect their "feels like" only accounts for wind chill. I came across humidex while I was in Canada, where (around the Great Lakes) there is a summer problem of 40-degree temperatures and close to 100% humidity. We used to dash from the air conditioned offices to our cars and get the air con on in them as quickly as possible.The met office kindly provide a "Feels like temperature" as part of their web page forecasts, and that clearly involves wind and humidity at least.
Isn't that how airlines measure their fuel consumption?What I'm interested in is miles per pound (or its reciprocal).
But that will go up and down (mainly up) with the price of fuel and having both variables changing in a two variable formula is never a good idea.LOL. I meant pounds sterling rather than pounds weight!
That's sort of what I assumed until a few weeks ago. I noticed that the feels like on two consecutive days with the same temperature but less wind was almost the same. I put it down to higher humidity, but didn't do a thorough investigation.I suspect their "feels like" only accounts for wind chill.
The mpg should be an option. Agree, l/100km is silly, though I have sometimes compared moles/l.Don't be silly. I just fill mine up and drive it 'till it needs filling up again. Strange how my car's computer gives me consumption in MPG though. I understand that. l/100km is stupid.
Well he started itI think you guys have frightened off the OP.
Likewise. Can't be doing with l/100 km or whatever it is. It's upside down to start with, which is annoying.Yep - have a spreadsheet to record costs per litre/gallon, MPG, average MPG per day/month/year, etc - sad eh !