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Old 11-08-2003, 01:19   #39
yesman
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Originally posted by danielf
I would imagine with a calibrated very accurate thermormeter, in very precisely laid out surroudings, so measurements can be compared against each other. I don't think your car thermo qualifies as such.
I am sure I read somewhere that the temperature is recorded by a "mean average" reading i.e. taken from several points, then added together and then divided by the number of readings over a certain time period, hence that in some places it will be hotter and in some places it will be cooler, and there was an equation which I can't remember.

I am sure I will be corrected on this, anyway as far as I am concerned, it has been bloody hot
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