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From Encyclopedia Brittanica:

"The name Gulf of Mexico has been applied to the body of water since at least the late 16th century. English geographer Richard Hakluyt referred to the 'Gulfe of Mexico' in The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589). That same year, Italian cartographer Baptista Boazio produced a map of Sir Francis Drake's 1585–86 naval campaign against Spanish colonial holdings in the Americas. Boazio depicted Drake’s fleet skirting the edge of the 'Baye of Mexico.' Other names, including the 'Gulf of New Spain” and the 'Florida Sea,' appeared on maps and in publications over subsequent centuries. Contemporary geographic standardization organization – most notably the United States Board on Geographic Names – treat Gulf of Mexico as the body’s official and 'non-controversial' name."

The new King of the United States might issue a decree ordering the renaming of the Gulf Of Mexico and the U.S. Board of Geographic Names might comply – but it is highly unlikely that any other nations would use the new name.

U.S. Board on Geographic Names

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The first clip says to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit, multiply the temperature by two and add 32. That is wrong. You multiply it by 1.8 and add 32. I'm glad I could clarify this for everyone, eh?
 
Can you guys do basic math like that in your head quickly and get the correct answer? Not just an estimate?

I'm going to do an experiment... I'm going to see how long it takes me to figure out what 9 c is in Fahrenheit...

So 8* 9. Then 10* 9. Then add them together and move the decimal and add 32... So 9 c is 48.2 f... I had to think about that to do it without just asking Gemini that took me around 30 seconds so that's not bad... But it's still a long time. If somebody asked me what's 9c in f there would have been around a 20 second pause before I told them the correct answer and that is awkward.

Long division would probably be worse like what is 1267 / 52 just to make something up randomly. I can right away tell you that's going to be 20 something but to be anywhere close to exact it's going to take me awhile.
 
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Ah, but what is the equivalent of 9° Celsius in the Kelvin scale?

Kelvin Temperature Scale Definition - MagLab

There are many scales for temperature, including Celsius and Fahrenheit. But what is a Kelvin? The Kelvin temperature scale is used by scientists because they want a temperature scale where zero reflects the complete absence of thermal energy (absolute zero).
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Remember the old comic strip Kelvin & Hobbes? No, wait, that's wrong.
 
JHDK said:
Can you guys do basic math like that in your head quickly and get the correct answer? Not just an estimate?

I'm going to do an experiment... I'm going to see how long it takes me to figure out what 9 c is in Fahrenheit...

So 8* 9. Then 10* 9. Then add them together and move the decimal and add 32... So 9 c is 48.2 f... I had to think about that to do it without just asking Gemini that took me under a minute so that's not bad.

Long division would probably be worse like what is 1267 / 52 just to make something up randomly. I can right away tell you that's going to be 20 something but to be anywhere close to exact it's going to take me awhile.
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I know both scales fluently without need to convert unless you get too much over 100F. I am also not as strong on the negative Celsius temps (below 32F).
 
IRBS says 9 divided by 5. I said 1.8. Those are the same thing, just expressed differently. MAD magazine #33, June 1957, included The Potrzebie System Of Weights & Measures. There is only one measurement of temperature:

100 degrees Smurdley (S) = optimum temperature for eating halavah (27 degrees C)

Here are the measurements of length:

1 potrzebie = thickness of MAD #26
.00000 p = 1 farshimmelt potrzebie (fp)
1000 fp = 1 millipotrzebie (mp)
10 mp = 1 centipotrzebie (cp)
10 cp = 1 decipotrzebie (dp)
10 dp = 1 potrzebie (p)
10 p = 1 dekapotrzebie (Dp)
10 Dp = 1 hectopotrzebie (Hp)
10 Hp = 1 kilopotrzebie (Kp)
1000 Kp = 1 furshlugginer potrzebie (Fp)

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THE POTRZEBIE SYSTEM OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

From http://groups.google.com/group/rec.humor/browse_thread/thread/12687fdb03ac0ed0/991c9e78235b5136 When Milwaukee's Donald Knuth first presented his revolutionary system of weights and measures to the members of the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, they were astounded...mainly…
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IdRatherBeSkiing said:
I know both scales fluently without need to convert unless you get too much over 100F. I am also not as strong on the negative Celsius temps (below 32F).
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Is that a thing most Canadians can do? Even though the whole world uses the same system as you, you're so close to us you're used hearing about Fahrenheit all the time.

Since my dad started out as a European and was a chemist he was a double Celsius user...He could convert to Fahrenheit to Celsius in a split second.

Gemini just taught me the dude named Celsius had it backwards when he created it and he had boiling at zero and freezing at 100. So he was a big dummy too, just like the Fahrenheit guy. Fahrenheit created his scale first. Before him there just weren't scales for temperature apparently.

 
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HecticArt said:
Math is for dum people.
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I think I've seen some comedian make this joke but every one of my middle school math teachers can go fuck themselves for being so confident when they said oh, you're not always going to have a calculator with you.... Meanwhile, around 3 years later (by like 9th or 10th grade) we all had Nokia 3310s that had a calculator. And less than 30 years later we all have fucking Terminator style artificial intelligence in our pocket all day long.
 
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JHDK said:
Is that a thing most Canadians can do? Even though the whole world uses the same system as you, you're so close to us you're used hearing about Fahrenheit all the time.
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Most Canadians my age. We used to have a similar system to you. Same except we had bigger gallons. I first learned F, then in 1974 about when I was 12 we switched to C and I learned that. We switched the other measures later so I am less knowledgeable about them. And it's a strange mix. I measure my gas in litres but cook in cups and teaspoons. I drive in kilometres but am 5' 11". Snow sounds more impressive if quoted in centimetres and rain more impressive if quoted in millimetres. My weight is in pounds. I think that was the last one they changed.
 
JHDK said:
Can you guys do basic math like that in your head quickly
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I can do two digit numbers times one digit numbers fine. I can do two digits times two digits usually too (if one of them is low like under .... 34?)

I have some tricks. Like 54x19 is just 54x20 minus 54. Which is 54x2x10 minus 54. So 1080-54 = 1026. I just did that on the fly in about 10 seconds.

When he was young I worked on this with my son, in addition to doing simple algebra in his head. He can still do simple algebra (2x squared plus 7 = 25, for example). But he never took to doing multiplication in his head. He still looks to me for it.
 
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