Re: AW: Translating an embedded C algorithm

[Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@nospam.please>]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:26:32 +0100, Ludovic Brenta
> <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada:
> 
> 
>>Right, and there would be no need for a silly INVALID_TEMPERATURE.
>>What *is* an invalid temperature anyway?  One that needs crutches?
> 
> 
> 	Well... anything that comes out as less than 0deg Kelvin <G>

Maybe not -- see, for example, 
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/ParticleAndNuclear/neg_temperature.html

<quote>

Questions: What is negative temperature?  Can you really make a system 
which has a temperature below absolute zero?  Can you even give any 
useful meaning to the expression 'negative absolute temperature'?

Answer: Absolutely. :-)

Under certain conditions, a closed system can be described by a negative 
temperature, and, surprisingly, be hotter than the same system at any 
positive temperature.  This article describes how it all works.

</quote>


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