The celcius was designed without regard to the temperature of absolute zero. Why does the exact value of absolute zero only have 2 decimal points in the celcius scale?

Question

Isn’t it quite a big coincidence that this value would only have 2 decimal points on a scale that puts the temperature value of water boiling and freezing at whole numbers?

In: Mathematics

Answer 1

It’s not really that much of a coincidence. Celsius is basically designed to measure the temperature between boiling and freezing. It just so happens that the difference between freezing and absolute 0 is roughly 2.5 times as big as that. So that’s why there’s the same number of 0s.