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Hi Steve... Steve Emmerson wrote:
This is exactly right. The computed values are temperature *intervals* of 0 kelvins, which are -273.15 degrees Celsius.
This seems very counter-intuitive. I'd always been taught that a temperature change of 5K was equal to a temperature change of 5C (Celsius, that is).
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