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A DECIDED disadvantage of the centigrade scale in meteorology is the use of negative numbers for temperatures below freezing point. In taking out means of months where negative numbers occur the labour is doubled, and other additional sources of error have to be avoided.
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INNES, R. Thermometer Scales. Nature 74, 150 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074150b0
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