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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Imagine if some distance measuring system decided their zero was at like 10 feet.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago

Let me just shorten this down 8 feet

welds on an extra 2 feet

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If using log scale, 0 is at -∞

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

no 0 would be at 1

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, the temperature can be -1. But nothing measures negative.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Imagine if it did though.