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Hard? So is using the degree symbol apparently: not a single one in the whole article.

(68F is not a temperature — it’s a seat number.)

https://degreeswhat.com/?68

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No, 68 farads is a capacitance. Pretty massive one, too.

It's another question how they obtain that from coulombs...

That would be 68 F [1]. I agree with parent, 68F is a seat number.

[1] https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/checklist.html (number 15).

After using siunitx[1], I have taken great care to ensure the spacing of measures and their corresponding units.

[1]: https://ctan.org/pkg/siunitx?lang=en

That would be 68 F, not 86F.

Way back in high school precalculus, I had a particularly hard (and hard-ass) teacher. I generally scored in the 85-95 range, but one exam I was shocked to get a grade in the 60s. When I asked the teacher about it they pointed out that since I hadn't written my angles with the degree symbol (e.g. 45˚) that meant they were in radians, and thus very (very) wrong.

Never did that again.

This is taking being a grammar nazi to a whole new level.

That's grammar Nazi

I don't know how to tell you, but language prescription is not actually morally equivalent to genocide.

"To be fair", there is ASCII in the name

"To be fair..." (chorus of Letterkenny voices)

I appreciate the ASCII-only excuse, but I've corrected the omission anyway. Non-ASCII characters in randomascii - what will they think of next?

Thanks for that!

Pssst... You over-corrected

> 278 °K to 283 °K,

There's no ° symbol before the kelvin unit, just a regular non-breaking space if you want to be SI-compliant.

You may have overcorrected a bit; 300 Kelvin is written 300K, not 300 °K. (The system is a mess.)

It is written "300 K", with a space in the middle. Possibly even a non-breaking space.

Definitely a non-breaking space.

To be double fair, the page says in the bottom "And worry about whether this blog should have been called randomutf-8"

    68:degrees:F

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