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There are quite a number of temperature scales. For this task we will concentrate on 4 of the perhaps best-known ones: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin Kelvin], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_Celsius Celcius], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit Fahrenheit] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_Rankine Rankine]. |
There are quite a number of temperature scales. For this task we will concentrate on 4 of the perhaps best-known ones: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin Kelvin], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_Celsius Celcius], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit Fahrenheit] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_Rankine Rankine]. |
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Revision as of 18:38, 12 February 2013
Temperature conversion is a draft programming task. It is not yet considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons that should be found in its talk page.
There are quite a number of temperature scales. For this task we will concentrate on 4 of the perhaps best-known ones: Kelvin, Celcius, Fahrenheit and Rankine.
The Celcius and Kelvin scales have the same magnitude, but different null points.
0 degrees Celcius corresponds to 273.15 kelvin.
0 kelvin is absolute zero.
The Fahrenheit and Rankine scales also have the same magnitude, but different null points.
0 degrees Fahrenheit corresponds to 459.67 degrees Rankine.
0 degrees Rankine is absolute zero.
The Celcius/Kelvin and Fahrenheit/Rankine scales have a ratio of 5 : 9.
Write code that accepts a value of kelvin, converts it to values on the three other scales and prints the result. For instance:
K 21.00 C -252.15 F -421.87 R 37.80