LL79: For the LLamas

[RJRouge]

I went 8/12 on Thermo but finished slightly ahead of former Harvard physics instructor (among other things) PahkJ. I haven't used thermo much since grad school.
I had one of my highest-ever 1DS finishes in "Bird Nerds OR ELSE," which was a lot of fun.

Top ten finish for me in that one for me!

I have a masters in mechanical engineering, so probably should have done better than 71% on thermo, but it's definitely been a long time since I've used it. I did miss out on some points by putting -273 and -460 for the absolute zero question.

I didn't do very well, but I find fault with the -459 answer for Fahrenheit. I suppose, however, that it would come down to an argument over the difference between truncating and rounding (rounding, the answer is definitely -460).

[Woof]

I went 8/12 on Thermo but finished slightly ahead of former Harvard physics instructor (among other things) PahkJ. I haven't used thermo much since grad school.
I had one of my highest-ever 1DS finishes in "Bird Nerds OR ELSE," which was a lot of fun.

Top ten finish for me in that one for me!

I have a masters in mechanical engineering, so probably should have done better than 71% on thermo, but it's definitely been a long time since I've used it. I did miss out on some points by putting -273 and -460 for the absolute zero question.

I didn't do very well, but I find fault with the -459 answer for Fahrenheit. I suppose, however, that it would come down to an argument over the difference between truncating and rounding (rounding, the answer is definitely -460).

??? My mental math got me from -273 to -459.4, which latterly both truncated and rounds to -459. Am I overlooking something?

[boson]

Absolute zero is - 273.15 C. If you convert the truncated number you get something different than the exact number.

[RJRouge]

I didn't do very well, but I find fault with the -459 answer for Fahrenheit. I suppose, however, that it would come down to an argument over the difference between truncating and rounding (rounding, the answer is definitely -460).

??? My mental math got me from -273 to -459.4, which latterly both truncated and rounds to -459. Am I overlooking something?

-459.67 F is the value to 2 decimal places.

[Woof]

Absolute zero is - 273.15 C. If you convert the truncated number you get something different than the exact number.

Ah, so. I never work with the sig figs, hence my confusion.