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Originally Posted by mrsD
Here is an example of deceptive math.
Yesterday morning we saw a 300% increase
in weather temperature . It was 3 degrees F.--
up from zero overnight.
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Um... not sure if I agree with your math there. 300% of zero is still zero.

It'd work with ONE degree though, in both F AND C!
Math aside, that kind of change is better/best calculated from Kelvin (which is absolute). Zero degrees F is ~255 degrees Kelvin. 3 degrees F is ~257 degrees K, for an increase of 257/255 = ~0.8% (0.0078431372549019607843137254902)
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